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Old Nov 21, 2013, 7:26 pm
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hamburgoflyer
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
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Originally Posted by Landing Gear
This has been running for 19 hours straight! No clue from McAfee on the phone what to do.

Opinions?
If I were you, I'd boot linux from a cd/dvd, mount the windoze partition
and copy your files to a usb hd and start over with a fresh windoze.

Or better yet, use ubuntu while it has its own quirks (but fewer) the
amount of malware out there to get you is orders of magnitude smaller.
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