Over the last few days I noticed I had malware on my blogging computer. It refused to let me flush or clear my network adapters, and I was being constantly logged in to Texas unless I specifically moved it to another place. Still even then I am not able to flush the network adapters on either the computer nor NordVPN. I download and open a lot of stuff and stuff that I suspect might be sketchy, but I can normally fix it with minimal effort. This one took more work and will be a few hours before I am fully back to full speed and power on it.
The video computer, the one I use to play videos on because it is a slightly less powerful CPU but has the same 16 GB of ram and the same medium priced graphics card, is not effected. When I tried the network flush it works. The plan for this morning is to reset the Windows and reload my programs. But … the local Windows reset / reinstall did not clear the issue. The second reset / Windows cloud based reset where it downloads a new copy of Windows, failed to clear the problem also. So I got out one of the store bought Windows program install USB and ran it, wiping out the existing C drive entirely and formatting all other drives. It worked, but this one is out of date by years so it takes a lot more updates and I have to redownload all my 100s of themes from Windows Store. I also then have to download all my programs, including all my security programs and clean up programs. So much work so I won’t be getting to comments until later. I do think I know where the malware came from. Of course the only way to prove it is to reopen the same files, and then if it is that, I would have to do all of this over again. Not worth it right now. I will just watch when I go to that site to see if it happens again and if so … well you know. Have a great morning everyone. Hugs. Scottie
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Good luck, Scottie! Problems with computers, even PCs are terrible, especially when Windows runs on it. Best wishes, Michael
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sorry you’re dealing with this. pretty cool you know what to do!
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Hi Susan. Thank you. Long story short, I found out years ago I was good with computers, took some classes, then did it for a while. So yes I do know this, and while a lot of what I learned is now way out of date, the knowledge I have gives me the ability to look up and understand what I read when I get stuck with new technology. Hugs. Scottie
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My husband calls me Tech Support @ Home. (TS@H) But i have my limits. 😂
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