I've had McAfee running for years on all of our machines, and at day's end of running this thing hard, I update and run the free version of Superantispyware (always catches trash) and Malwarebytes Premium religiously.
Today, as I was finalizing my day modifying 4 pages of a website with the webhost's editor open along with my email client and Facebook Admin page, nothing new, been rolling that way for the last three years, getting ready for a few cocktails to plan tomorrow's cook out, I logged out the web client's site, updated a Facebook page with a link, logged out of everything back to the desktop, and tossed three downloaded movies onto a flash drive for the evenings' viewing from laptop to the big screen.
Business as usual.
I yanked the flash drive out, opened Superantispyware, updated it, clicked scan, bam everything went to less than a snail's pace.
Closed out Superantispyware and lit up Malwarebytes and the red apostrophe popped up saying I was unprotected, fix it now.
Nah, nothing would do anything.
Hard reboot and the Start button wouldn't answer my click, right clicking to close Superantispyware and Malwarebytes slowed things down even more.
Ctrl+Alt+Del wouldn't summon the Task Mgr.
Hard reboot again to head over to system tools to grab a system restore date, nope.
Checked all other devices in the house and only WiFi devices were still rocking.
Came back to the DELL and went into Safe Mode with Networking and Run it back to a time when...to hit a restore point, no dice.
I can't do diddly with the machine itself except make it to the desktop and it won't recognize a flash drive and I have no disc.
How to begin to fix that thing?
Dell 4700
Win XP Pro
Service Pack 3
3.4GHz
3GB RAM
500GB HD
55GB used
Mozilla Firefox ver 39.0
McAfee Security
Latest Adobe Flash patch 18.0.0.209
Hardwired to router, no WiFi option
Today, as I was finalizing my day modifying 4 pages of a website with the webhost's editor open along with my email client and Facebook Admin page, nothing new, been rolling that way for the last three years, getting ready for a few cocktails to plan tomorrow's cook out, I logged out the web client's site, updated a Facebook page with a link, logged out of everything back to the desktop, and tossed three downloaded movies onto a flash drive for the evenings' viewing from laptop to the big screen.
Business as usual.
I yanked the flash drive out, opened Superantispyware, updated it, clicked scan, bam everything went to less than a snail's pace.
Closed out Superantispyware and lit up Malwarebytes and the red apostrophe popped up saying I was unprotected, fix it now.
Nah, nothing would do anything.
Hard reboot and the Start button wouldn't answer my click, right clicking to close Superantispyware and Malwarebytes slowed things down even more.
Ctrl+Alt+Del wouldn't summon the Task Mgr.
Hard reboot again to head over to system tools to grab a system restore date, nope.
Checked all other devices in the house and only WiFi devices were still rocking.
Came back to the DELL and went into Safe Mode with Networking and Run it back to a time when...to hit a restore point, no dice.
I can't do diddly with the machine itself except make it to the desktop and it won't recognize a flash drive and I have no disc.
How to begin to fix that thing?
Dell 4700
Win XP Pro
Service Pack 3
3.4GHz
3GB RAM
500GB HD
55GB used
Mozilla Firefox ver 39.0
McAfee Security
Latest Adobe Flash patch 18.0.0.209
Hardwired to router, no WiFi option
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