The only sure way to recover from a hit like that for me has been to=20
promptly restore to an earlier date.

I currently have a bit of malware cornered and hoping for a fix to=20
eventually come from Norton. They now charge for contact by the minute.
The bad program is running out of the recycle bin pointing to Registry.=20
I have Blocked Startup program execution with config.
Manipulating the contents of the recycle bin does not work with normal=20
file procedures on Win 7.

On 10/31/2013 12:24 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> I did a bad thing, and I cannot believe how stupid I was.
>
> I have Introductory Circuit Analysis by Robert L Boylestad, 11th edition,=
 and highly recommended by some in this group.  It is one of the best I've =
seen and read, and I very highly recommend it, too.
>
> In it he uses PSpice software in some of his examples.  Now, this edition=
 is from I think 2007.
>
> So I found PSpice Student 9.1 Student version from softronic (google will=
 bring it first), thinking that my PC is heavily protected by up-to-date vi=
rus/etc software, and I got sucked in.  Big time.
>
> When it installed I saw browsers opening up that I didn't ask for, and I =
knew I had been screwed.  It changed my home pages for my browsers and also=
 inserted MyWebSearch as default search engines, and more.  It took me abou=
t an hour or so to get rid of it all.  Needless to say, I was torqued off b=
ig time.
>
> Needless to say that when I deleted softronic crap it left the malware, a=
nd all that.  And when I installed it, I said no to any questions it asked =
about additional software.
>
> Rant over: Now my question.  Obviously PSpice is out, but is there an alt=
ernative to it?  Or perhaps an "honest" version that I could trust?  Has an=
yone used it?  Or gotten suckered in like me?
>
> Thanks!
> Lindy
>
>
>

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