New "Used" Laptop Question, well 2 questions.

[Linda in NY]

Hi all,

Recently purchased a new "Used" Laptop. Its a HP NC6000 Business notebook with Windows XP Professional, Intel Pentium M processor 725 – 1.6GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 400MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), 60GB Hardrive, 2048-MB (333-MHz) DDR SDRAM, Centrino Wireless Lan stuff, Bluetooth stuff, DVD, CD-RW stuff, and some other deals on it.

First off, we need an ac/dc adapter for the vehicle for when we go on trips in the rv and what not. I was told one, you need the 100 dollar plus adapter to insure it doesn't do damage to your laptop, and I was told as long as it puts out the correct voltage and amps and junk, a generic is fine.

So now I'm confused, do I need a 100 plus dollar one, or can I go with a 50 dollar generic one. I want to get a mouse for it too, the little pad makes me crazy, I've never had a laptop before so I'm not used to it.

My other question, since it was a refurb from a small business man and not a company, how do I check to make sure that there are no keystroke, password stealing trojan programs on there. I ran my anti virus stuff, put firewall and anti virus on it, put spybot on it and ran that. What else can I do to check it.

I haven't done any bank or other transactions like that on it, but still I want to check it to be sure.

Thanks,
Linda

[Jesse Vlasveld]

About the question if theres any keystroke or any other thing on it. I'd recommend you format the machine. This way you can make sure it wont have anything on it you dont want there.

About the adapter. I think a 50$ one will work just fine

[Daniel-Z]

I agree with Jessy 100%