Thanks folks,
I will try some of your suggestions as soon as I get a few minutes to myself! At the moment I can't devote enough time to do it properly, which is a pain, since I'm stuck with a slow, old machine in place of my usual one.
No, it's not SAGE, Mark. It's a very old DOS package which she had a hand in designing, so it does exactly what she wants of it.
Ideally, I want to keep an installation of XP for use offline. I'd been thinking of creating a brand new, fully updated one just before microsoft finally pulls the plug on April 8th 2014 and ghosting it, so maybe this virus isn't such an inconvenience anyway - at least now I can't forget about it until it's too late!
I'm going to clean the infected disk one way or another and do that, then I'll create a dual boot with some flavour of linux (assuming I can get one to run on this hardware). One thing's for sure, I'll do all my surfing in a VM in future to avoid this situation.
I will post back and report progress, as soon as I've made some!
Thanks again for your time. All suggestions welcome.
I will try some of your suggestions as soon as I get a few minutes to myself! At the moment I can't devote enough time to do it properly, which is a pain, since I'm stuck with a slow, old machine in place of my usual one.
No, it's not SAGE, Mark. It's a very old DOS package which she had a hand in designing, so it does exactly what she wants of it.
Ideally, I want to keep an installation of XP for use offline. I'd been thinking of creating a brand new, fully updated one just before microsoft finally pulls the plug on April 8th 2014 and ghosting it, so maybe this virus isn't such an inconvenience anyway - at least now I can't forget about it until it's too late!
I'm going to clean the infected disk one way or another and do that, then I'll create a dual boot with some flavour of linux (assuming I can get one to run on this hardware). One thing's for sure, I'll do all my surfing in a VM in future to avoid this situation.
I will post back and report progress, as soon as I've made some!
Thanks again for your time. All suggestions welcome.