reinstall and reformat after virus

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Hi,
got hit bad with several viruses that knocked out my
Norton sofware.
All viruses seem to have been deleted but my system is
playing up badly,can't type rich text email or type while
online plus norton still will not work.
Do I do a re install ? If so do I need to reformat?

Regards,

Simon

 

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simon plant wrote:
> Hi,
> got hit bad with several viruses that knocked out my
> Norton sofware.
> All viruses seem to have been deleted but my system is
> playing up badly,can't type rich text email or type while
> online plus norton still will not work.
> Do I do a re install ? If so do I need to reformat?
> > Regards,
>
> Simon


Try a repair install first.
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If you reformat, do you have your program cd's ready to hand? Do you any
backups of your documents?
You might try a Repair Reinstall first to see if that gets you going. You
should uninstall Norton and then reinstall it if your computer is
functioning well enough to do it.

"simon plant" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2b5301c4a8ba$793a3de0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> got hit bad with several viruses that knocked out my
> Norton sofware.
> All viruses seem to have been deleted but my system is
> playing up badly,can't type rich text email or type while
> online plus norton still will not work.
> Do I do a re install ? If so do I need to reformat?
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon