So a few days ago, the computer my sisters use got hit with some sort of virus or otherwise nasty malware, and I was put in charge of fixing it. I got the comp usable again by dual-booting it with Ubuntu so they could still get online, and installed Avast under Wine so I could scan the Windows partition without any interference. I had a feeling a lot of problems were in their Temp caches, so I just cleared those out-of-hand (and that cut down on some of the warnings Avast gave me before I decided to do so). Doing so also freed up about 4 gigs of space on that partition.
Well, the bigger problem is that it detected that pagefile.sys was infected. I know what the file does (the virtual memory store/swapspace; I also know it being infected means that Windows would re-infect itself every time it restarts), but seeing the options I have in front of me here, I want to know - before I try it - if Windows automatically regenerates a clean pagefile.sys on boot if it doesn't find it, or if it not finding it will make the system unusable from the get-go and require being scrapped and restored from scratch.
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You should be able to delete it without issue, Windows should recreate it (It's for the virtual memory)
If they have 4G of memory & they're not a game user, you should be able to get away with just turning it off completely.
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Spoiler for Some Good Rules for Christians:
Luke 10:27 (Love God Above All, And Your Neighbor as yourself) And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 7:12 (Do unto others)
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 5:43-48 (Pray for those that persecute you)
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Luke 6:27-29 (Love your enemies.)
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
Originally Posted by Saint Augustine
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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books.
Isaiah 8:12-13 (NIV) "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread."
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I don't even use pagefile. I have it set to save nothing to it. It may slow a couple things like startup, but it speeds up my computer for recording.
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It'll still be fine to delete the pagefile. Windows will just create a new one.
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2 Timothy 3:15 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
It'll still be fine to delete the pagefile. Windows will just create a new one.
Yes, I found this out by experience when I went back into Windows (although because I'd been physically moving data off the Windows partition to an external HDD it took quite a long time for Windows to rebuild its index to correctly reflect the state of the partition's files).
It's still not been completely *fixed* to my liking, though. The weird virus appears to be gone, but I won't give them the go-ahead to use Windows again until I've exhausted AdAware, SpyBot (plus immunizing), MalwareBytes, Avast! (under Windows itself this time), and made sure they all come back clean, and then run CCleaner and Defraggler to catch registry issues, defrag the hard drive, and then use the secure wipe on the free space. There's also some minor Firefox tweaking I need to do.
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