Help !!!

Dime_Bar

I use Avira which is very good and uses little resources, it has an annoying splash screen that pops up when you do an update but its not too bad.

I would not recommend that anyone goes online with some kind of virus protection, yes it is easy to spot alot of the threats out there but that is not enough, plenty of legit websites are infected.

slewis1972

Being in IT for 10yrs, you must be mad not to have any Av installed.

When you say AVG was not running - can you give more info?

How much RAM do you have?
What OS?

Try Avast:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

as some friends use it and say its good.

I personally use Nod32, its low resources hungry and has won alot of awards.

Scott

katie1

espresso wrote: »

It doesn't sound like anything works very well on your PC.

:rolleyes:

yes , quite right dont know why

i dont have enough know about computers to put it right lol

TorrestheGreat

Reluctant_spender wrote: »

How do you know you are not infected and infecting others.

online scanners

espresso

katie1 wrote: »

yes , quite right dont know why

i dont have enough know about computers to put it right lol

Perhaps posting a Highjackthis log see here would help others see what you have on your machine.

katie1

not sure i like that idea. everyone can see whats on my computer , how safe is that ???? not very !

espresso

katie1 wrote: »

not sure i like that idea. everyone can see whats on my computer , how safe is that ???? not very !

It's very safe as it only shows what programs you have installed and running including any nasties that you should not have running! The malware spyware removal guide sticky here by Browntoa has successfully been used by many to sort out their problems.

Browntoa

theres no identifying data on a hijackthis log, purely the software thats running/installed at any time. It allows me to spot things that should not be there and identify the problem

do the malwarebytes and the combifix scans , then posts the logs here, the only information they give is about what has been found and been deleted, nothing of a personal nature is revealed

can the others argueing about the merits of antivirus software carry it on elsewhere so that Katie doe not get confused

katie1

ive done the malware spyware scan, it found 389 infected file ive quarantined them all , not sure if i did right but to late now . im now loading avast anti virus .

Browntoa

I would also do the combifix one, you should not have quarantined but done this

Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected