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helpp meeeeeeeeee

   Discussion: helpp meeeeeeeeee
emilie is CRANKY · 19 years, 6 months ago

you gotta love 16 year-old sisters who are about as vigilant as a head of lettuce when it comes to internet security. i come home from uni for christmas to find that my sister has 20-odd trojans in her files and that my mum has received a phone bill for �300 because some hacker's gotten into the line and has made a gazillion international phone calls. hoo boy.

thing is, despite the hours of�mcafee virus updates and scanning and patching and firewalling�and googling and tearing my hair out, i'm still getting these blasted porn popups on the bloody thing and IE keeps shutting down and i have these bizarre hyperlinks everywhere linking to random search engines and omg waaahh. *puts head in hands and sobs exhaustedly* :D

can ANYONE out there help me? please? i diiiieeeeee. *bats eyelashes*

Josh Woodward Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
Reinstall. :)
emilie is CRANKY Back · 19 years, 6 months ago

*DELETES XP OMG*

Phoenix Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
punish some inanimate objects to calm down? :)
sheryls Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
have you tried the yahoo toolbar? it kills popups and spyware.
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years, 6 months ago

I'm having a virus issue myself right now.� I had a bunch of 'em on my machine and I bought Norton and it fixed some of it. But then my computer toasted and was cycle-booting..never actually booting up. So it was dead for a month and finally a kind soul gave me XP to reinstall (I couldn't find my disc) which got the computer up and running again...Norton then found a virus (trojan)�still there, but quarantine failed, then delete failed. (So wtf do you do then?)...in the morning, computer was cycle-booting again. Reinstalled again and last I knew it's still functional but I have no idea when it'll die again. I gotta burn all my stuff to CD if it lets me and reformat the damn thing, probably.

nate... Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
Have you already tried spybot and ad aware?

Starfox Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
Indeed, these are the only two to use. I also recommend using Mozilla Firefox instead of IE.

Lastly, use Grisoft AVG as your virus software. It's free, updated frequently and can scan your email and downloads.
iPauley Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
OK, that pretty much kills anything I was gonna post. :-P

Between these two guys, they've covered just about all I would have suggested, and can think of to suggest right now. :)

OOOH, I do have something extra -- if you use Firefox, get the Adblock extension. can be configured to pretty effectively kill pop-ups Firefox's blocker misses, plus ads and things inside web pages, too.

-- Pauley
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
I'd suggest an exorcism. I have the materials and know the rite.
nate... Back · 19 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, I use AVG on all my machines.
renita · 19 years, 6 months ago
i had the hyperlinks everywhere a little while ago.

here's the thread where we talked about it

also, majorgeeks.com has a really good step by step page that walks you through cleanign your computer.
Jºnªthªn · 19 years, 6 months ago
Buy a mac.

I haven't had the need to run any virus software in about 15 years...

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