[wydopen]

hey guys im not the most comp. savy guy and my g/f's comp has no protection (subscription to mcafee expired) and i think there is adware or spyware on it....there are so many popups you can barley surf the net...

if i renue her old protection will that do??...

will it find the virus or whatever is on here or will it just protect it from getting a new one???

any advise would be great...one of my friends does this for a living but i havent talked to him in a few months and i would feel bad calling him for computer advise out of the blue...

thanks

edit: guess i should have put this in the tech forum...mods feel free to move it

 

[Scrub]

stop checking out the porn sites sucka...lol

 

[wydopen]

thats what my comp is for^^^^merry xmas...chris..u should be proud of me im partaking in your fav. activity...alcohol

 

[Dartman]

For spyware get Spybot, Ad-aware and/or Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta. Unfortunately for a badly infected system it may be impossible to download and install any of these. It may be time to blow away the partition and start over with a fresh windows install.

Mike

 

[geargrrl]

For spyware get Spybot, Ad-aware and/or Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta. Unfortunately for a badly infected system it may be impossible to download and install any of these. It may be time to blow away the partition and start over with a fresh windows install.

Mike

Mike neglects to mention that the above softwares are free and do not require a subsciption. Also, switch to Firefox browser.

gg

 

[wydopen]

Mike neglects to mention that the above softwares are free and do not require a subsciption. Also, switch to Firefox browser.

gg

how do i do that??

 

[wydopen]

tried the spy-bot...it wasnt free

 

[SK6]

Here

http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-1.5&os=win&lang=en-US

 

[SK6]

here

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

 

[wydopen]

thanks

 

[SK6]

No worries.

 

[Dartman]

Mike neglects to mention that the above softwares are free and do not require a subsciption. Also, switch to Firefox browser.

gg

Yes, but it was before coffee.

 

[wydopen]

works much better now...how do i switch to firefox???

 

[geargrrl]

go to www.mozilla.org download firefox browser, install, set as your default browser.

 

[wydopen]

thanks works way better now...u guys are the sh*t

 

[wydopen]

much better

 

[geargrrl]

thanks works way better now...u guys are the sh*t

you may want to run spybot more than once just to make sure you've got everything; immunize and keep it updated, and then be sure to run it about once a week after that.

 

[Wumpus]

Grisoft AVG

 

[Wumpus]

Spywareblaster

This runs in the background and keeps stuff from downloading. Only problem with it is that you have to manually check for updates unless you pay for it.

 

[SK6]

Also recommendable to start in safe mode and run the antispyware, as many tend to embed themselves in memory.

 

[Netguy]

For spyware get Spybot, Ad-aware and/or Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta. Unfortunately for a badly infected system it may be impossible to download and install any of these. It may be time to blow away the partition and start over with a fresh windows install.

Mike

Ditto. It sounds like you could be looking at hours of cleanup, however with your experience, it might be beyond repair (dont take that the wrong way).

Reloading the OS on a new partition is always easier and faster.

Depending on what Anti-Virus solution you have, or want to re-issue, that still might not fix the problem. Some Anti-Virus solutions, are just Anti Virus only...however others do have built in spam and adware blockers.

Spybot is the best, I have found. Microsofts version is also very good. HiJack this is also another good one, that usually finds stuff for me, that the first 2 dont.

 

[yonton228]

http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14508

There is some very good free software links when you clicky my link. One recomendation that I was told was to scan your comp regurally, and then scan in safe mode. I allways do both and generally find something (if there is sumthing on my comp) when scanning in safe mode than when I scan normally.