I'll be patient and wait a few weeks / months after it's been released to upgrade... It's not that I don't want to upgrade, I just don't feel like dealing with any issues that may arise with the initial release.
This is ridiculous. I want a fast, slim browser. Not an internet security suite/browser client all-in-one. Firefox was created because the Mozilla suite was too large. Now, Firefox is becoming too large.
What if we were to use a hard drive bridge (allows us to treat our internal drive as an external USB drive) and scan the hard drive using another computer? The hard drive will be powered during this operation. Could we potentially clean the virus out in that regard?
It is possible that his hard drive is failing. You should be able to get to the recovery partition on it when you boot - by pressing F10 or something similar. Go ahead and see if you can find it.
Most of the food I like is Mediterranean, mostly Lebanese. The neighborhood here is mostly Lebanese so I get a lot of exposure.... certain pasta salads, spreads (hummus!), flat breads, mmmm.....