dieseldoc Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 My laptop got a virus I think and it crashed my hard drive. So I am in the market for a new computer. Any reccomendations? My laptop is used primarily for running my scan tool and service information. I will be purchasing an IDS hopefully in the near future, I want to make sure what I buy will work well with it. Thanks for the input guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 If it is not an old laptop a new hard drive is not all that expensive or difficult to replace. What makes you think that the hard drive is bad or you have a virus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseldoc Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 I tried to open a site that I have been to many times before. All of a sudden a bunch of wierd pop-ups started coming up, my mcaffee didnt say that anything had been detected. Than it started to beep as if it was counting, I shut it down and it contiued to beep. I removed the battery and left it out for a day(didnt have time to mess with it). I put the battery back in on saturday evening and started it up. The background picture showed and that was it. There was no icons, and I dont remember if there was a start button or not. I am not a computer savvy person by any means. I know how to operate the computer but not much about troubleshooting or fixing things when it acts up. I found a place in town, that said they would look at it but it would be two weeks before they might have a chance to get at it. The computer has my scan tool and all my service information, data logs, etc. on it. I just cant be a month with out it. You cant do much of anything on a vehicle without a scan tool, schematics, etc anymore. I will have to put a call into my aunt(she is a computer programmer)see what she has to say. Its amazing how much we rely on them. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 You say you have McAffee? They have a lot of helpful information on their website. If you have a subscription with them for your software they may be able to help you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Do you have the rescue disc's? always have rescue disc's when you buy a computer. I used to to have McAffee and had my computer wiped out by a Virus. been running AVG Free edition by Grisoft. Works great. Here's a link if you're interested: http://www.avg.com/product-avg-anti-virus-free-edition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseldoc Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 Yeah I have the discs. I am not real impressed with mcaffee right now either. The only thing that was real detremental to me is my ford service manuals on dvd. I purchased them off of ebay as bruce reccomended and loaded them onto my laptop. I dont think I can install them on another until they are uninstalled from the one they are on. I think what I am going to do is ship it to my aunt with all of my discs. She is a retired computer programmer. If she cant bring it back I dont think anyone could. Just frustrating to not have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Good idea. I would try the rescue disc's before replacing the computer. Go to that link I gave you on another computer and download the program to either a USB thumb drive or burn it to a disc. then when you get your aunt to fix it, put the antivirus on the computer right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARRY BRUDZYNSKI Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 After one of the guy's at work used my computer to order some parts on a trusted website we use everyday his computer and mine crashed. I couldn't get mine or his back even with the discs, we sent them out to a local computer shop and had the computers wiped clean. They also added AVG to the system before we got them back. I think the site had something attached to the address, we called them and they denied having any problems, funny thing about it though is the fact they had come out with a new address about 2 weeks later. AVG seems to be working quite well, it has caught quite a few bugs here and there. It runs automatically everyday around lunch so as not to slow me down to much while it runs. I told Keith about this a couple of weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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