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Spyware or whatever it is
I have a problem with spyware. I turn on my computer and instead of my regular background it has this thing that says "Warning spyware.." blah blah blah. And you know on the bottom of your screen theres icons you can click, well its there too. It's making me mad...I have tried un-installing anything that it might be in my add/remove programs. Thats not doing anything. I'm hoping someone who knows a lot of computers could help me out. How do I get rid of this? And getting a spyware-removal program wont work, it seems to make it worse. I will rate you!
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I reccomend paying for a sweeper
Go to best buy and get Spy Sweeper. Its a great program.
To take care of your problem now until you getabout 15 dollars do this
downloads.com
Search for
adaware Download the latest adaware program
And search
spybot search and destroy
Download that
Those are free sweepers, they do a decent job but i reccomend paying for one.
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ok heres a good answer, on my computer i have ZERO spyware and viruses, and ill tell you how to get ur computer like that too, heres the things you have to do... 1. get 3 different virus scanners... the ones that are installed on my computer are 1. norton antivirus 2. avast home edition 3. zone labs zone alarm built in antivirus 4. antivir XP you should only need 3 though, only one will be allowed to run in realtime though and scan fulltime because of a socket layer issue and if 2 run at once in realtime scanning it will conflict... you can do a full scan though with all of them at the same time, which i reccommend doing, the next thing... 2. get all of these anti-spyware tools... (these are all ligitimite and i use all of them and my computer is squeeky clean) 1. microsoft antispyware 2. adaware SE 3. spybot search and destroy 1.3 4. spyware doctor 5. spyware blaster after you download all of those install them and update all of them... now heres the big part, first what you want to is run the virus scanners, do a full system scan with all of them (assuming theyre fully up to date) and let them run until theyre all done, then use one to clean them, and then the next to clean the one its found... and so on n so fourth (because some virus scanners find some virus's that the others dont and vice versa... after that is done... run the spyware tools by doing a full system scan... let them all go at once, and then let the computer sit, eat dinner or something... then come back to it like an hour later, and start cleaning in this order... 1. adaware 2. spybot 3. microsoft antispyware 4. spyware docter... only because the first 2 yell at you kinda if you already clean something it found and it says like the parasite can not be found scanner will exit, then you just wasted time... spyware blaster, is more of a preventer than a cleaner... which is what you will need after this... now after that is done... download the firefox browser or the opera browser (i use both) which wont give you spyware, especially the opera one... but its a little bit less functional when it comes to flash plugins... 3 of the programs will watch your computer and make sure nothing else gets in 1. spyware blaster 2. spybot 3. microsoft antispyware 4. (somewhat) spyware docter but this can sometimes cause problems, so turn this option off in this program. you can find all of the mentioned programs in this answer at [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) also before you restart the computer... do this go to start>run and type in "msconfig" in the main page you will see "load startup items" uncheck that box, if you have printer or something that needs loaded or a program that "HAS" to load with the computer find it under the startup tab, and check only that program(s), because the rest are most likely melicious... one more thing before i go... you saying a spyware removel program wont work, if you do everything i just said in this peice of advice it will work, the ones you have are probably the popups that say "CLICK HERE FOR A SPYWARE SCAN" yea those are not good, the ones im talking about are good, trust me, this will completly take your hard drive and run it through a biggg screening test for viruses and spyware, and then put protections in place to protect against it, its kind of like sewage water going through a big screen first, then a smaller one and then a smaller one, until its just "dirty and brown" water, then you hit the chemicals, that take out all the toxins, and then finally you hit the distillers, which make it pure H2O, then its bottled (the bottle being the protection)... so that should help, contact me at wdarea51@gmail.com for any other questions, i can answer almost anything
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The Fantistic Super Team of Awesome SpyWare Killers:
Spybot: Search & Destroy
Adaware
Spyware Blaster
Hijack This
That and have a really good anti-virus. I reccoment Norton 2005 Corporate Edition
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Go to "Start" then then click RUN, then type in "Msconfig". Hit enter and then click startup. Delselect anything that looks malicious or just deselect everything. I leave everything deselected except for AIM. Let me know if this doesn't work.
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You can get rid of it by totally re-booting your computer or you can call people that work for computer companies and they can usually help better. The Spyware romoval things are the spyware viruses. DELETE THEM!
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Adaware
mircosoft spyware beta.
spybot search and destroy
Those should get rid of it, also try running a trend mirco free online virus scan.
If youre more computer literate run msconfig and regedit.
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go to downloads.com and there are a few spy ware removal and anti virus programs you can download, and they are all free. personally i would say to go with spysweeper or spydocter good luck
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