i have an inspiron 2200 laptop, i wish to reboot as i have a virus, i have tried down loading latest antivirus from avast which i use, but i am still stuck with the pop up? any ideas how to make my laptop as from the factory, thanks in advance:help: :help: :help:

i have an inspiron 2200 laptop, i wish to reboot as i have a virus, i have tried down loading latest antivirus from avast which i use, but i am still stuck with the pop up? any ideas how to make my laptop as from the factory, thanks in advance:help: :help: :help:

Did you receive a recovery disk with the laptop?
If not it may be a pain I went out to a forummers a bit ago and the virus had attacked the restore facility.

You mean a fresh reinstallation of Windows?

Firstly, back up all your data :)

Your Dell laptop should have been supplied with a restore CD or Windows CD. You should be able to start your computer from the CD-ROM and reinstall Windows again.

If you need drivers for your hardware, you should be able to pick them up from Dell's support website:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INSPIRON%202200&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

no i got no drivers, it was just as it was, i'm a novice at the pc, how do i back up my data? just put a disc in and copy all my stuff to it? is there an easy way? thank for your help

yeah a complete restart, i cant see any other way, if i could get round it i would

What pop-up are you getting?

something about security,system 2008 or something.telling me i am infected. telling me to subscribe and delete my viruses,

Backing up your data is straightforward - just copy all of your personal documents to another external location, such as an external hard disk, USB memory key, CD-R disc.

You must do this because the Windows installation procedure may wipe your hard disk so you'd lose all the data currently on there.

thanks Jason. will get that done,

something about security,system 2008 or something.telling me i am infected. telling me to subscribe and delete my viruses,

Would this pop-up be 'AntiVirus 2008'? Download Malwarebytes' (http://www.download.com/3001-8022_4-10878968.html?spi=f57f00566f0b1258b83d44d6866785b6 ) It's free!!

it says, system antivirus 2008...will try that site..many thanks

:) :) :) :) :) :)

you get a lot of these on the net.

I use Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 which isn't a cheap option but i get these pop-ups off the net saying i'm infected with 100,000,000,000,000 viruses but my regular virus killer says NO:hihi:

At the end of the day, they are scams to get you to buy a crap product that don't work.

You don't have a virus , you just need a good spywear stopper .

something about security,system 2008 or something.telling me i am infected. telling me to subscribe and delete my viruses,

oh dear antivir08? by any chance (or a variant of?)
Nasty bugger that one I've still got remnants of it on my system.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Glad it worked for you. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

thanks to you all...i got it sorted ...downloaded what savannah2 said...jobs a gud un !!!:) :) :)

Excellent news! Don't forget to back up your data though... after all, who knows what tomorrow may bring :suspect:

:D

true...you only want to back up when its tooooooo late