Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
Oh, the pain and humiliation! I've just used a Dell restore CD!
Not only that, it solved the problem!
What's the world coming to?
Dell naming an installation in a way that it seemed like a cover for spyware is of course not quite as surprising. And that's the source of the whole problem too, so I guess it's not all that strange in the end ... Take heed kids, this is what happens when you try to clean up on a computer you don't know well enough! I'm installing AVG Antivirus to make up for the problems right now ... It never hurts to have protection you can still get updates for after all.
Wow! Infections! Here's one computer that will have AVG running in the background and auto-updating virus definitions by the time I leave ...