perry
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been without any for over 6months since the stock mcafee that came with the laptop ran out its been fine untill i tried "purchasing legitimately " some photoshop from my usual source now I'm getting ghey popups so whats a really decent virus software ? ill be geting it from a shop other than downloading cheers
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Odin
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perry
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brilliant ;D and the price is right too
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perry
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its worked well found the file i suspected and put it in the chest and deleted it i cant find anything left of the file ( winrar as it happens ) thats not to say its not stil hiding somewhere but ive looked everywhere i can think of and not found a trace but I'm still getting popups ive turned up all the settings so nothing should be allowed in but every minite I'm closing another window any suggestions ( that doesnt involve throwing the laptop against the wall lol )
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Odin
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You probably need to do a boot scan to get rid of it. Look here about how to do that. As it happens, WinRAR isn't a malicious program unless it's been infected with something.
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perry
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I'm knackered used windows defender that got rid of a couple but still had popups used the windows scan which named the main culprits as trojan:win32/iflar.gen and adware:win32/adrotator but it couldnt delete them I'm sure ive found them in the windows folder but I'm too scared to delete them and I'm not sure that would eliminate them completely i tried using search but that didnt work spent hours downloading and uninstaling programs that either tell me i have no viruses or anythng upto 180 ! currently trying spyware doctor and if that doesnt work spyware terminators next on the list
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Odin
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Have you done a boot-time scan yet? The problem with not being able to delete them is because they are running, so rebooting and running a scan without Windows loaded will work.
I would be careful of downloading so many random 'anti-spyware' programs, because some of them are just spyware themselves.
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perry
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i did the boot scan once it was instaled and it got rid of a few but not the ones I'm having trouble with spyware doctor dealt with 196 but i still have popups did another boot scan and no more were found spyware terminator has eliminated a further 6 but I'm still getting the same popups I'm aware of the false spywares as the last pc had to have everything removed and reinstaled
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gearoil
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NOD 32. Kills all known germs. Dead.
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I use AVG's free range of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit. They've stood me in good stead.
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I'm pretty sure ive sorted it now ;D out of the stuff i tried avast and spyware doctor ( google tool ) were the best they wernt what sorted it though i downloaded autorun ( a tool that lists all programs that open on startup ) saved that directly to c: booted in safe mode unchecked the stuff that looked questionable and some that i just didnt want to open on startup opened the c: drive and tracked down anything that i didnt see necesary and fooked it off I'm not certain but i think it was a folder called sonic that was the cause and its as quick as it used to be ;D thanks for the help
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