Virus farked my PC

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

What does it matter if there are "months (if not years) worth of upgrades"? Upgrades to what, Windows? Run Windows Update a couple times and you're caught up within an hour.

I typically do a clean install every 6-8 months or whenever my computer starts acting flakey. Takes about 3 hours from the time I put the Win7 disk in, until I'm back to where I need to be with all programs installed and updated, along with all my files transferred.

Again...huh?

You will actually do a clean install of windows every 6-8 months?To avoid a "flakey" computer?And you'll wait 3 hours to do so?

And you'll do all this to avoid a virus that your antivirus program should've taken care of to begin with?

Again HUH?!?!?!?!?!

Btw windows update takes a "little" more than an hour to catch up after a clean install,in some cases more than a day in your own admission at least three hours.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Again...huh?

You will actually do a clean install of windows every 6-8 months?To avoid a "flakey" computer?And you'll wait 3 hours to do so?

And you'll do all this to avoid a virus that your antivirus program should've taken care of to begin with?

Again HUH?!?!?!?!?!

Btw windows update takes a "little" more than an hour to catch up after a clean install,in some cases more than a day in your own admission at least three hours.

To each his own... doesn't matter to me. Don't like my method, you don't have to use it.

Also, Windows Update has never taken "more than a day" to update and that's including the time it takes to download the files - maybe it would take that long on a dial-up connection because of the painfully slow download speed. You must have misunderstood something, takes me about 3 hours to install windows, update drivers and get all my software/files copied back over.

Next you're gonna say there's no need to have a backup copy of your files...