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Originally Posted by E150GT
I know this is an old thread, but I didnt want to start a new one if I didnt have to. My laptop has a trojan. Something about RTHDBPL and WIN32.dll issues. Obvoiusly not a computer guy. My question is, can I take a flash drive and save my pics and music and just wipe the rest and reinstall windows 7 and reload all my pics and music, or will it reinfect my computer? I dont have much installed in the way of programs. Just Blackberry Desktop Manager, Blackberry Swiss Army Knife, and a few others I got for free. I can download those again. Thanks
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Yes you can definitely do that. In fact, in many cases it is easier to wipe and reinstall if MWB can't handle the infection.
I posted this in another thread, but these are the three most common programs that get attacked by viruses because they have weird browser plugins.
1.Java runtime environment
2. Adobe Flash
3. Adobe PDF
There sadly isn't an alternative for the first two, so be vigilant in keeping them updated. For the third one run a program like FoxitPDF and disable the scripting engine.
Finally, run a browser that isn't Internet Explorer. Again I repeat run a browser that isn't internet explorer. Only use IE if a website has issues.
I recommend you download and install these two programs:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
http://adblockplus.org/en/installation
Firefox is a great alternative browser. Adblock plus is also a great ad blocking extension for firefox. Rogue advertisements are the number one cause of drive by infections like Vundo (attacks the Java browser plugin). Adblock plus keeps them from loading and kills off banner ads as well like the google one I am seeing up top right now.
Plus it is all free. Who doesn't like free as in beer software!