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    Zachie Chan Recognized Member Ouch!'s Avatar
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    Default Adware/SpyBot mishaps

    After I found three trojans on my computer, I downloaded adware and spybot to prevent this kind of thing. Today I ran both programs. Naturally they found some problems. I looked over the files that I they wanted to fix or delete. All these files appeared to be things that I had obtained over the internet such as spyware and the likes.

    Apparently, that wasn't all that was messed up. Apparently my computer can no longer recognize sound files. I haven't seen if it also screws up my games but I cannot play any of my music. Visuals still work, but as far as the sound goes, it's busted.

    Any suggestions?

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    Format your hard drive and reinstall Windows. Once you've been compromised there's no way to know if you're clean or not.

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    I just modified Sound Blaster Live! and everything is working now. I'm glad it worked out without having to do something drastic.

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