My 16 year old nephew was visiting from out of town yesterday (Xmas eve, 07).
Thank God my Desktop was password protected.
He had gotten in my docked Dell 8200 Inspiron and virtually destroyed the way it runs.
I called him long distance this afternoon to a plane when he was flying to another place and asked him as politely as possible :
WHAT THE HE** WERE YOU INTO that COBBLED UP THIS COMPUTER SO BADLY?
His reply:
I know it was something called Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4, and as I remember I was into tweaking your browser: I.E. Version 6, bye.
Results:
--I’ve lost many of my Programs (Adobe is a good example, I haven’t checked them all yet)
-- I’ve lost the the NetGear WGR614 router connection and encryption.
-- My Modem (a Siemens Speed Stream 5100 for DSL Pro from SBC) was fried according to an SBC 2nd tier technician.
-- That’s what I know for sure so far.
HELP and here’s my questions, PLEASE, as in Begging:
How can I undo ALL these changes that lil F***er made, or am I looking at a format/re-install?
I’m in a state of anguish over this I’m about ready to EXPLODE!
This is my primary Busine$$ machine!
Partially my own fault.
I don’t do back-ups on this program, and I’m not familiar enough with it in advanced mode to undo all these changes and get the frapping thing back to normal.
All I have done so far between Holiday things is try a systems restore without any luck, and email the form from:
http://www.spybot.info/en/contact/software.html to see if there is fee based assistance available.
I realize this is going to cost me some $$, and I sure wouldn’t ask the Mfgr. of a free program for free help.
All I know for sure: THIS THING is a discombobulated mess!
Groucho/USA willing to kick for any and all long distance phone calls if that is even necessary or possible to restore this.
Sorry for the lengthy post. I guess that’s better than beating an inquistive poor 16 year old sense-less!
Sure to be one , I'll NEVER forget.
HELP!
(Moderators: yes I did search the forums first and only came up with fragmented advice: some over 2-3 years old)