Old mans PC has the above virus, how do i go about getting rid of it?

Got AVG and Spybot and both haven't helped.

 

they wont do as there poo

http://www.free-av.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

download and run both of them

 

Cheers will give that a try

 

Too much porn!

 

I think so. Always wondered why he had dogging sites on his favorites

 

I love dogging, i went saturday

 

Did you meet IMA with his Rotties

 

If he has a fiesta or a 206 then yeah he was there, flashing his interior light!

 

Just installed Avast recently. Do a google search. This killed everything, has protected me from loads of attacks and is free.

Charlie

 

tried avista in the past, then my old mans cousin said use avg so we did. trying to get the malware program on but it's not recognising the dongle.

 

Try SDFix - that got rid of one for me that neither avg or avast managed to find. It's a spyware/trojan remover tool, not av, so don't uninstall avg/avast. Takes about half an hour to run and must be done in safe mode.

 

Running the 2 programs Danneth said, it's found some virus's and the malware has found 2. Taking a long time tho 2.5hrs for the malware full scan.

35% done on the AV upto now and thats took 1.5hrs

 

ye they do take a while, my comp is a beast and think it takes about 20 mins on here on full scan

 

Another good scanner...

http://www.superantispyware.com/

 

I dont know why people persist in using that AVG crap Its like buying a Porsche and putting a laserline alarm from Argos on it for security

I had to fix my mates laptop on Saturday night due to him getting a virus from one of the ads on The Pirate Bay and yup he was using AVG because he too tight to shell out £15 for decent internet security

 

Only problem is once a virus gets in, it can spread everywhere, and no virus program will remove 100% of it. In my experience, once you have been infected, the only sure fire way to get rid 100% is a format and re-installation of windows. Only takes about an hour, considerably less time than faffing about trying to remove the virus!

 

Not necessarily, you could also spend hours backing up all your important data

 

True, hence I said in my experience, as any files I have that are worth keeping are stored on an external drive anyway, so if the computer goes tits up then its not the end of the world!

 

Is it better to run all these scans/programs with Windows in safe mode? or does it not make any difference to their effectiveness?

 

like norton?

 

nah not really mate

 

I'd recommend AVG over Norton

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-firewall.htm

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...s-software.htm

 

Only ones that benefit from Safe Mode are specific spyware removal applications, as some spy/malware run hidden process that re-activate the program/backdoor if removed.

Chris

 

Used both of these programs, had to put the files on a dongle then load them on the pc.

Took a while as I run both at the same time, the Malware found 8 problems and fixed it, then done the other link this found 2 other problems.

All sorted now. Avg and Spybot never seen anything bt these 2 programs did.

PC also runs faster, done the laptop aswell and it's running alot quicker.

Thanks Again, if anyone has a problem i'll direct to this thread

 

 

Cheers for clearing that up

 

np