Calling all computer geeks

[Samuel]

You know what. My bad. You are 100% correct Samuel. I saw the request and flippantly posted ComboFix. I am an IT professional and have found ComboFix extremely useful for some of the tougher cases I have seen. I just found out Big Guns is not going to be talking in the third person when giving serious advice. Thats too bad because based on my experiences reading Big Guns posts I have decided to start talking in the third person, but only when giving serious advice.

ComboFix is no Joke, its going to get the bad stuff out of your computer and doesn't much care if some good stuff gets taken out with it. The way Egapal sees it, you already messed your computer up. If you take Egapal's advice and always have your important data backed up you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from ComboFix. Now Egapal knows that not everyone backs up their data and has copies of all their software for a reinstall so Egapal should have given the ComboFix advice with a word of cautions. Egapal agrees with Samuel 100% ComboFix is serious business. Egapal uses Combofix at his own risk and so should you.

I didn't mean for my post to sound like a scold, but I read it as is with no words of caution and went "... oh boy" Just the other day we sent tools out of this office to change Windows boot ini settings, and we got a call 20 minutes later letting us know that he made it worse ... and we should have known better.

Just had to say something before I see the "I used Combofix and now Windows won't load right .. and I keep getting these blue screens now" post.

[Egapal]

I didn't mean for my post to sound like a scold, but I read it as is with no words of caution and went "... oh boy" Just the other day we sent tools out of this office to change Windows boot ini settings, and we got a call 20 minutes later letting us know that he made it worse ... and we should have known better.

Just had to say something before I see the "I used Combofix and now Windows won't load right .. and I keep getting these blue screens now" post.

No worries. It wasn't super responsible of me to post it without a word of caution. I am not going to beat myself up or anything but you were right to bring up the possible negatives. I have had very very good luck with Combofix. That being said I am a pro. If I ruin a load of windows its not a big deal. Its really nothing for me to reload and restore. But not everyone has 4.5 TB's of redundant storage at their house to keep a before and after image of every computer they work on. Its a good tool but like any tool it can cause damage. Thanks again for adding the warning I should have.