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    Hi

    I wanted to again thank you for all of your help. While setting up my wife's new laptop I deleted everything on my external HD on my laptop, which was everything I had for the last 15yrs. A dumb mistake on my part using the HD to install Windows 10 on her laptop and it reformated and deleted everything, so I am starting from zero now. Her setup is good to go now and I think I will eventually wipe everything from my laptop and start fresh which will hopefully end my security issues. I really learned a lot from you and I am still reading through some of the links you sent. Thank you so much you're really nice.

    Mike

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    You know, the best way to ensure safety on the infected computer was to actually reformat it. This also brings to mind the urgent need to make backups to make it all a smoother transition.

    If this had happened on mine I would not had hesitated.

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    I know,I had it backed up but screwed up and deleted it along with everything else. oh well

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    yikes

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    Glad we could help.
    Since this issue appears resolved ... this Topic is closed.
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