One of the best protections against all sorts of malware is to never run your Windows computer in the default user mode. ALWAYS create a new user with no admin privileges. Use that user for all your work. On 03/24/2014 10:25 AM, Sandra K. Gorin wrote: > My computer tech just left. I am up but on a patched together system > sadly. It was a virus that hit yesterday, making its way through > several layers of virus program protection. It destroyed a lot of my > system, including my restore point, favorites and wouldn't allow me > access to any of my folders/files. > > To get me up and running for now, he had to create a new account - so > I am running on two accounts. On one is my e-mail and my virtual XP > files. (Note, I do not go to the internet on the XP side, I have > three programs I must use that will not run on Windows 7, none cloud > based). For my other files - Word, etc. etc. I have to use the new > account. So, I physically have to log in on one side to check e-mail; > log out and log in on the other account to use my word documents, > etc. etc. All of which takes times. > > As soon as I can afford it - I need to take my system in to him and > have him dump thousands of files and then reformat my entire system. > This would not be cheap due to amount of things I have on my system. > So, I'm hoping to limp along for now and see if it holds together. > > I'm skipping my posts for today, just have a lot to do to get some > things "back to normal" on the computer so I can figure out where to > go and when! Thanks for your patience! > > Sandi > > > Sandi Gorin, Kentucky Colonel > President, South Central KY Historical & Genealogical Society > Sandi's Website: http://www.gensoup.org/gorin/index.html > Sandi's Genealogy Puzzlers - http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYBARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._