dumb and desperate!

brummybloke

these 'helpful' programmes can sometimes be a !!!!!! and when they go wrong it can be a nightmare. norton played silly buggers with my pc and i tried to uninstall it and i had no end of trouble. dont feel bad that it took ages, sometimes i have to go outsde and calm down when mine behaves like a mong.

im sure norton was only £19.99 a while ago from pc world or somewhere but if you have difficulty getting out and about then maybe your options were limited.

good luck with it, you may find at some stage you have had enough and as long as there is nothing important on your pc that you want to format your hard drive and re install windows and then put on norton and an adaware product. i have had to do that a couple times and it is annoying.

spankymonkey_2

i had the dreaded winfixer2005 bug a few weeks ago, i found that downloading avast, and getting the latest updated version of adaware and spybot search and destroy and microsoft antispware finally got rid of it. i used to have norton and decided to use a free antivirus and these have given me no trouble whatsoever..... good luck with cleaning up your pc.and if you download hijackthis please do not try and delete stuff from there without someone with pc knowledge advising you what to delete. i regularly go onto https://www.thescream.co.uk and post my hijackthis log on there and they advise me.

windym_2

homealone don't feel bad. :j The way to look at it is if you paid too much on one item you need to help balance the scales by paying less for the next. You are already saving money by fixing the machine yourself. Remember that glass is half full and youve done a great job already, I know loads of people who can't even cope with this site let alone post a question! :T :T :T

homealone_2

yhanks everyone. i have printed out the winfixer removal instructions kindly left for me but am too scared at the moment to even try working out instructions let alone try doing anything on comp. other than that all seems ok. norton pops its head up everyday saying all operating ok and the 2 things it could not do anything with have heard no more from. nice to know am not the only one who struggles a bit on here. did have adaware on here some time ago but something went wrong with it cant remember what. should i try downloading this and is it free? still recovering from being stung on norton!!! am going into hospital tomorrow for a review on my back as am getting alot worse so i dont know when i will get a chance to try and tackle dam winfixer again. i did contact them to tell them did not appreciate dam thing constantly popping up but as you can imagine no reply as yet. thanks again everyone i doubt it will be the last you hear from me lol

brummybloke

adaware by lavasoft is free, downloads.com have it as do lavasoft.com