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  1. Hello all Nice to be here. I am very paranoid when it comes to my desktop, partly because I don't exactly have the cash lying around to get a new one if something happens with this and partly because I do online shopping etc so don't want anyone getting hold of bank details. The reason I am here is to ask such knowledgeable people a few questions in the hope that I can slightly allay my fears. Yesterday Avast discovered a few viruses in its boot scan, one of which was a Trojan which can download other nasties as and when it pleases - a downloader, I'm guessing? Anyway this whacked me into full paranoia mode and so today I have using the Acer recovery console to transform back to factory settings (the OS being vista when I first got this comp) and then installing 7 via the windows discs. My computer seems very happy right now, certainly a bit more speed and less loading when not doing much at all. Trouble is, am I completely fine now after these admittedly quite drastic but still pretty simple steps? Is there any step in the process where the nasties could have flown through to the 'other side' and still be able to get me? I've heard of bios, boot viruses - are these a myth? Also can viruses be sent simple 'down the line' via your ip address and modem? Can they get onto the recovery drive itself, rendering a factory restore useless in any case? I also now have two operating systems, one being this, 7, which is on my Acer DATA (F:) drive and Vista, which is on ACER (C:). Does this have any impact whatsoever on my overall computer health? I won't be using Vista at all and did try to format the F drive but to no avail (another worry for me). Thank you so very much for your time and sorry for such a likely pointless post!
  2. Thanks Dale, really much appreciated Will do all of the above as soon as I get a bit more time (having some time off from computer worrying for an hour or two)
  3. Thanks Dale, really much appreciated Will do all of the above as soon as I get a bit more time (having some time off from computer worrying for an hour or two)
  4. Hello all Nice to be here. I am very paranoid when it comes to my desktop, partly because I don't exactly have the cash lying around to get a new one if something happens with this and partly because I do online shopping etc so don't want anyone getting hold of bank details. The reason I am here is to ask such knowledgeable people a few questions in the hope that I can slightly allay my fears. Yesterday Avast discovered a few viruses in its boot scan, one of which was a Trojan which can download other nasties as and when it pleases - a downloader, I'm guessing? Anyway this whacked me into full paranoia mode and so today I have using the Acer recovery console to transform back to factory settings (the OS being vista when I first got this comp) and then installing 7 via the windows discs. My computer seems very happy right now, certainly a bit more speed and less loading when not doing much at all. Trouble is, am I completely fine now after these admittedly quite drastic but still pretty simple steps? Is there any step in the process where the nasties could have flown through to the 'other side' and still be able to get me? I've heard of bios, boot viruses - are these a myth? Also can viruses be sent simple 'down the line' via your ip address and modem? Can they get onto the recovery drive itself, rendering a factory restore useless in any case? I also now have two operating systems, one being this, 7, which is on my Acer DATA (F:) drive and Vista, which is on ACER (C:). Does this have any impact whatsoever on my overall computer health? I won't be using Vista at all and did try to format the F drive but to no avail (another worry for me). Thank you so very much for your time and sorry for such a likely pointless post!
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