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Title: Laptop and viruses
Post by: unlucky mark mv6 on 06 February 2010, 19:55:59
Anyone on here know how to get rid of viruses from a laptop?,as its getting totally unusable.I have just loaded a mcafee security disk on it,but when i have scanned it,it doesent pick anything up,and the pop up thing still keeps poping up saying there are so many viruses in the system,click here to remove them,and when you click on it,they ask you for money.How do i get rid of it?. >:(
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: Entwood on 06 February 2010, 20:01:28
You probably don't actually have a true virus at all .. just an annoying little program that has managed to get onboard and is causing all the pop-ups.

If there is nothing important or irreplaceable on the laptop, a complete reformat/ clean reinstall would get rid of anything lurking away..

If you don't want to do that ... have a read here .. several differing solutions offered ..

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080221235125AAYZjKX

HTH
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: PhilRich on 06 February 2010, 20:02:01
Mark, download & install a programme called 'SpybotSD', it's free & bloody good at finding & getting rid of stuff like you've mentioned. Also, a very good Anti-Virus programme (free again) is 'Avast' HTH :y
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: Proz on 06 February 2010, 20:18:14
Two great free programs here .... update and run full scan  :y

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

This will help  :y
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: unlucky mark mv6 on 06 February 2010, 20:49:18
Cheers folks,i knew i could rely on you lot(computer freaks) ;D :y
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: waspy on 06 February 2010, 20:53:52
Quote
Mark, download & install a programme called 'SpybotSD', it's free & bloody good at finding & getting rid of stuff like you've mentioned. Also, a very good Anti-Virus programme (free again) is 'Avast' HTH :y

I use this & it's excellent. Get it from here
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2128856/spybot-search-destroy
Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 06 February 2010, 21:05:26
try msconfig from commandline and disable unwanted programs from the tab "startup" .. so wont disturb you again..

Title: Re: Laptop and viruses
Post by: mathewst on 06 February 2010, 23:26:26
Not sure which windows are you running, but here is a suggestion.
If nothing helps, you'll have to format the HD.
Before you format create two partitions oh HD, and reinstall the windows. Then use new partition "D" probably and install and store important programs and documents there so you don't loose anything in the future.