Quote Originally Posted by mact_tors View Post
good day sir gh....remember my dell netbook?the buyer returned my unit claiming that it is infected with the virus! he found this out when he inserted a flash disk and tried to view hidden files. the folder option "show hidden files and folders" is not working. also, i found out that the "update now" option in the mcaffee anti virus is not highlighted. i tried to uninstall and re-install the anti-virus but same thing happened. i even tried avg (free) but it did not made any updates! is my netbook infected? good thing i did not buy the sony netbook because of your review otherwise i will have 2 netbooks! thanks again sir GH!
I would just simply reformat and reinstall the entire system using the recovery CD or whatever recovery method is used for your brand of netbook.