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safe mode
On my Presario 7922 with Windows 98, AdAware may stall when deleting
malware. Presumably, that's because the malware is loaded. AdAware will delete this stuff in the safe mode, but I have trouble starting in the safe mode. I've tried each of the control keys and F8. What could be wrong? |
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Specifically what do you mean by "I have trouble starting in
the safe mode." What happens???? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... On my Presario 7922 with Windows 98, AdAware may stall when deleting malware. Presumably, that's because the malware is loaded. AdAware will delete this stuff in the safe mode, but I have trouble starting in the safe mode. I've tried each of the control keys and F8. What could be wrong? |
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In the past, I've never been able to get into the safe mode except when
the computer crashed several times in a row. This time, it worked only once. The time it worked, the computer had been sitting two hours with the power switched off at the surge suppressor. I turned on the power and pressed the button on the box while holding down a CTRL key, and the selection for safe mode came up before the machine even checked memory. I deleted spyware and malware with Adaware. Then I restarted so I could dial in to check for updates for Adaware. There was an update and Adaware showed more malware, but I was unable to get back into the safe mode. (Actually I have a Mac. The Compaq belongs to nieghbors who know even less about PCs than I do. The owners have often found that when the computer keeps crashing on startup, leaving it off overnight will cure it.) In article , "HH" wrote: Specifically what do you mean by "I have trouble starting in the safe mode." What happens???? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... On my Presario 7922 with Windows 98, AdAware may stall when deleting malware. Presumably, that's because the malware is loaded. AdAware will delete this stuff in the safe mode, but I have trouble starting in the safe mode. I've tried each of the control keys and F8. What could be wrong? |
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First, I'd suggest trying SpyBot Search & Destroy. It does a pretty good job
of getting rid of spyware that already has loaded into memory. Did you try F5? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... In the past, I've never been able to get into the safe mode except when the computer crashed several times in a row. This time, it worked only once. The time it worked, the computer had been sitting two hours with the power switched off at the surge suppressor. I turned on the power and pressed the button on the box while holding down a CTRL key, and the selection for safe mode came up before the machine even checked memory. I deleted spyware and malware with Adaware. Then I restarted so I could dial in to check for updates for Adaware. There was an update and Adaware showed more malware, but I was unable to get back into the safe mode. (Actually I have a Mac. The Compaq belongs to nieghbors who know even less about PCs than I do. The owners have often found that when the computer keeps crashing on startup, leaving it off overnight will cure it.) In article , "HH" wrote: Specifically what do you mean by "I have trouble starting in the safe mode." What happens???? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... On my Presario 7922 with Windows 98, AdAware may stall when deleting malware. Presumably, that's because the malware is loaded. AdAware will delete this stuff in the safe mode, but I have trouble starting in the safe mode. I've tried each of the control keys and F8. What could be wrong? |
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F5 didn't work. I checked the operation of each CTRL key by selecting
multiple icons on the desktop. Both worked. I restarted, this time pressing a CTRL key six times a second. I got the menu for the safe mode, and I saw that it said F5 was the way to do it. Then I tried several more starts. I couldn't get the safe mode menu again using the CTRL key or F5. As for the malware, Spybot Search & Destroy didn't find much, and AdAware would still hang up when I tried to delete. I was using Smart Scan. I tried Custom Scan and told it not to bother with a couple of categories associated with IE. This time it deleted what it found. It found very little when I tried it again in Smart Scan and nothing more when I tried Full Scan. In article , "HH" wrote: First, I'd suggest trying SpyBot Search & Destroy. It does a pretty good job of getting rid of spyware that already has loaded into memory. Did you try F5? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... In the past, I've never been able to get into the safe mode except when the computer crashed several times in a row. This time, it worked only once. The time it worked, the computer had been sitting two hours with the power switched off at the surge suppressor. I turned on the power and pressed the button on the box while holding down a CTRL key, and the selection for safe mode came up before the machine even checked memory. I deleted spyware and malware with Adaware. Then I restarted so I could dial in to check for updates for Adaware. There was an update and Adaware showed more malware, but I was unable to get back into the safe mode. (Actually I have a Mac. The Compaq belongs to nieghbors who know even less about PCs than I do. The owners have often found that when the computer keeps crashing on startup, leaving it off overnight will cure it.) In article , "HH" wrote: Specifically what do you mean by "I have trouble starting in the safe mode." What happens???? HH "Ned Protter" wrote in message ... On my Presario 7922 with Windows 98, AdAware may stall when deleting malware. Presumably, that's because the malware is loaded. AdAware will delete this stuff in the safe mode, but I have trouble starting in the safe mode. I've tried each of the control keys and F8. What could be wrong? |
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