I hate my computer

Fran

I've caught something, I don't know what and it's got loads of symptoms and I can't get rid of them and I'm going round in circles with pop up boxes every minute and Internet Explorer messing me about and all sorts of other things.

Have you been there? ::) :P >:( ???

Daytona_nev

Pay me £20 & i'll come round & set fire to it for you

Daytona_nev

But seriously,

You got a web browser hijacker program. You need to download some spyware & adware destroyers.

You need 'Spy sweeper'. Its the best on the net

http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/spysweeper/index.php?rc=266&ac=417

Download the trial version, if it asks you to pay after sweeping, send me a pm & i'll send you **We clearly can't allow offers to send pirated/cracked software or serials to other users, PM or not. Edited by Mod2**

IvanOpinion

Alternatively if you can get hold of a copy of the July 2004 issue (I think - give or take a month) of Computer Shopper it came with a disk containing a full suite of Panda software that included anti-virus, spam-blockers, pop-up stoppers, firewall etc. etc. (I used this with great success on someones computer recently). Ask round your neghbours or if you are really stuck then PM me with your address and I will send a copy to you.

Also use the add/remove programs in control panel to uninstal as much junk as possible.

Ivan

chowster

or download Ad-Aware Personal Edition...from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ completely free...!!!! and works well..

webmasterpolo

I'm good with spyware, got some myself last year and killed it off, now l'm on top of it all the time.

Goto:

http://www.microsoft.com/spyware

This site explains what spyware is and how to help avoid it, but it also gives you links to 2 free peices of software Adaware and Spybot.  

Install them both, update the definitions and then run scans with them both.  Remove the files they find.  

Reboot the PC and run them again before you go online, if they find more files remove them again, you will have a slightly more difficult problem.  The files have hidden in what's called your registry (bascially a list of files to run when the pc starts) so everytime you reboot they come back.


This forum is excellent - the experts on here can tell you exactly which files in your registry to delete. It can take a while deleting files, rebooting pc, talking to the forum over and over (took me 11 reboots) but in the end the files will be completely gone.  This article explains exactly how to start:
http://forums.thatcomputerguy.us/index.php?showtopic=1190

Once this is done, get an uptodate virus scanner and firewall program and keep them uptodate.  Run scans on them and the adaware software at least weekly to keep yourself clean in the future.  

Hope this helps.