arg...
came home and my took longer than normal to start up...
now I find its full of spyware / spybots / viruses / tool bars etc....
apparently my nephew was using it earlier :-(
it was a fresh install, only a week old, and uber fast !
anyway.... got norton AV installed and fully updated along with spybot search + destroy and ad-aware....
but theyre not getting rid of it all.... any ideas before I have to go googling each individual thing and finding ways to get rid of them ?
screw it, im going to format :(
any ideas for next time..... it just pisses me off too much when these things download more problems and install them faster than you can get rid of them :s
Apart from the obvious, keep windows and your a/v updated.
Keep off dodgy sites and dont run something your not 100% sure of.
normally.... I dont run windows updatre past SP2, dont have any AV installed, and dont have any anti spy/popup/etc.. stuff on at all
and Im always fine because im carefull !
and Ill password my computer to keep my nephew off it... he can use my old one ;)
what I meant to ask is... any tips for getting rid of them ? the odd one is easy, google it, find out how to get rid of it, do it.... but when theres 20 of them its a pain in the ass. (paybe im just pissed because i have to format again because of someone else using my computer)
Run as many anti-spyware programs you can then run hijackthis, look for any suspicious items and remove them.
Download a trial copy of Spysweeper... from http://www.webroot.com
Why on earth do you not run AV software? Im very careful too but sometimes I get nasties. Its just not worth the risk.
Cheers
Tongy
http://filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/
http://filehippo.com/download_ad-aware/
http://filehippo.com/download_ewido/ - avg spyware
http://filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/
http://filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/
lol just bookmark this site also - http://filehippo.com/
Whats a good free firewall knocking about at the moment?? One that doesnt need any configering (sp?)?
Cheers
Best thing to do is punch the nephew in the beanbags. Thatll teach him.
Quote from: chrisdickoWhats a good free firewall knocking about at the moment?? One that doesnt need any configering (sp?)?
Cheers
Sygate isnt bad tbh
http://filehippo.com/download_sygate_personal_firewall/and its free :)
This is by far the best Spyware/Trojan/Fake Spyware Sofware tool I have used.
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
Use this at your own risk, It has caused side effects such as a laptop not shutting down with updated properly. Though this was remedied by manualy updating it.
avast!!!!!!
does everything for me
At the moment I use AVG anti rootkit (free)
and AVG anti-spyware 7.5
but I rarely have any problems as I use ipcop (http://ipcop.org/) as firewall.