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doorknobopener
01-06-2006, 11:29 PM
Ok it seems that my computer got infected with adware and a few trojans. Everytime I go onto the internet I get an ms blank thing and a pop up saying something along the lines of

And everytime I restart my computer I get popups from avast (my virus blocker) saying don't worry avast has stopped the Malware from reaching your computer. Hit abort to abort the connection.. It's

Mircosoft Internet thing (it's the blue bar thing ontop of the popup)


For Instant Access hit ok

And everytime I restart my computer I get popups from avast (my virus blocker) saying don't worry avast has stopped the Malware from reaching your computer. Hit abort to abort the connection. I hit it and it's good but like 5-10 minutes later it pops up again.


Alright I need some advice because I don't know that much about computers and the computer got fixed. The guy installed a virus blocker called avast, a spyware blocker called Spyware doctor, and Ad-Aware SE Personal. I've run the scans and I was able to get rid of a few things but there are a couple of things left.

So does anyone have any advice?

bballdude
01-07-2006, 05:39 PM
Time to buy Norton Antivirus.

a_brainless_guy
01-07-2006, 05:46 PM
Get a firewall if you don't already:
Zone alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=GB&lang=en)

And try running Spybot S&D:
Spybot (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A//www.safer-networking.org/en/download/&ei=RDbAQ728KJ_AwQHzmo38DQ&sig2=VCcwu7jcRGniP-OGQStvDA)

TheGrimKreeper
01-07-2006, 07:02 PM
Try running Microsoft AntiSpyware (http://www.sitesled.com/members/offspring/microsoftantispywareinstall.exe) - it's the best AntiSpyware program I know of.