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Problems With Spyware

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Do anyone know how to remove spyware from the PC? When I woke up this morning there were shitloads of shit on my computer. 12 pages of shit. I've tried Ad-aware, Microsoft Antispyware, Search & Destroy, Spybot and Kapersky, but they're not working. It's coming commercials from IE all the time and a yellow triangle with a ! in it down in the right corner. Can anyone help?
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Re: Problems With Spyware

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Do you have antivirus program installed? Run that first, it can be virus which cause those pop ups.

Start using Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer is spyware/virus magnet and therefor sucks.

Run disk cleanup to remove temporary internet files and other useless shit. Also, go to your Windows/Temp directory, and delete all files from there.
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Re: Problems With Spyware

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Banaani wrote:Do you have antivirus program installed? Run that first, it can be virus which cause those pop ups.

Start using Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer is spyware/virus magnet and therefor sucks.

Run disk cleanup to remove temporary internet files and other useless shit. Also, go to your Windows/Temp directory, and delete all files from there.
I've run antivirus programs and no virus are found. I'm using Opera, but I had to use IE just go to visit a site to bet on football and stuff. That site doesn't work in Opera. I'll run the disk cleanup and remove the temp files. Thank you :thumbs-up:
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get programs like AdAware, SpyBot and Microsofts Anti-SpyWare.

run them and they'll clear the shit off your pc.
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Re: Problems With Spyware

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Bob Garage wrote:get programs like AdAware, SpyBot and Microsofts Anti-SpyWare.

run them and they'll clear the shit off your pc.
Allready tried those ;) I'm thinking of reinnstalling Windows, but that's a lot of work.
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Get this program Ewido install and update the definitions. Then re-boot into safe mode and scan the whole computer. It should work. If it doesn't, go to this board http://boards.cexx.org/viewforum.php?f=1 they'll help you out.
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Bleeding Me wrote:Get this program Ewido install and update the definitions. Then re-boot into safe mode and scan the whole computer. It should work. If it doesn't, go to this board http://boards.cexx.org/viewforum.php?f=1 they'll help you out.
Thanx, I've also registred to another forum. I've left a post. Thank you! :thumbs-up:
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Download http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html. Install, run it. Examine the log http://www.hijackthis.de/en. With the results maybe you'll find the malware yourself. Otherwise submit your log in some forum like http://forum.hijackthis.de or http://forums.spywareinfo.com
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Re: Problems With Spyware

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M4ST3R M1K3 wrote:Download http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html. Install, run it. Examine the log http://www.hijackthis.de/en. With the results maybe you'll find the malware yourself. Otherwise submit your log in some forum like http://forum.hijackthis.de or http://forums.spywareinfo.com
Thanx, I've posted the Hijack log to another forum, but it doesn't hurt sending 'em to other places :thumbs-up:
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Re: Problems With Spyware

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If it's that far gone that all the ad removal programs can't touch it, and HijackThis fails, go the Format man.

My family's computer got like that, in the end I just gave up, backed up important files and reformatted. In the end the time it takes to do that is a lot better than blowing blood vessels everytime some new goddamn ad pops up!

good luck :thumbs-up:
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