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Computer Help in GP?

superclam
superclam
edited November -1 in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Anyone know a reliable IT person/computer helper/someone who can fix my computer in Greenpoint/W'burg?
I got a nasty virus!! :cry:
Thanks for your help.

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  • danielle123
    danielle123
    Altour (212) 897-5000. Manny is the supervisor and Alfonso ("Al") is the actual guy who comes to our office. Al did a housecall for me in Brooklyn to hook up my work laptop/printer, etc., so I know they can go to Brooklyn.

    Good luck!
  • superclam
    superclam
    Thanks. The IT guys at work agreed to look at it tomorrow; if they can't help I will call your guy.
  • bleibtreu
    bleibtreu
    If you can't find anyone locally I could probably do it. I clean that stuff up on computers at work all the time; viruses and spyware that slip past the antivirus programs. They can be found by tracking everything that loads as the computer boots, and removed by manually deleting registry entries and files. Antivirus programs often can't to it because these things are already running active processes and some have "re-load" routines.
  • superclam
    superclam
    Thanks again to both of you. Bleibtreu, that's damn decent of you; I may take you up on it.
    It's my fault for downloading songs from limewire - I should know better. The internet is running really slow & I'm getting all kinds of popups. The settings (theme & sounds) sometimes change themselves. I downloaded firefox 3 to see if that would help and now no site will allow me to log on with firefox (facebook, yahoo, this site, etc.) I have to use IE. :(
  • bleibtreu
    bleibtreu
    That Firefox thing is odd on a new installation... if you haven't yet, check under Tools -> Options -> Privacy, and make sure that the checkbox is checked that will allow sites to set cookies. That's the only area I can think of offhand that might cause the problem.

    And if your work IT guys can't get it all worked out, feel free to send me a PM.