So a woman at work asked me to have a look at her 18 month PC, as it wouldn't boot. 18 month old machine running XP home, should be a breeze.
Was giving BSOD on boot - Unmountable boot volume. Sorted that and in we got.
Now whilst a p4 1.5 with 256 meg isn't going to be super speedy, this thing was seriously dragging it's bum. So, lets check for virus's yes? Anti virus software on there, but as it's never been registered,so its 18 months out of date. :O
Quick AVG install and copy the updates across and holy mother, 154 virus's found and cleaned.
Then I noticed that it didn't have SP1 - so I'm looking at plain old Vanilla XP home. Several Updates and hours later, I finally feel comfortable about sticking a NIC in it and putting it on my network to grab the final couple of updates.
Connects up to my net, changes the net settings but it won't connect. Hmmmmm. Then when I finally get a page cannot be displayed error, its a f*cking spyware search page showing in the address bar...
Search and destroy installed and launched.
454 separate instances of spyware, including a staggering 27 different tool bars for IE! If they were all switched on at once you couldn't see the web page for toolbars!
Finally get to windows update and surprise surprise, the update client has never been installed![]()
Machines like this should be allowed on the net I say!


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