[quote]HoratioSandoval wrote:
Stigg. wrote:
Basically Hijackthis is useful (as mentioned) as is spybot and ad-aware. I had endless probs with virus and spyware whilst using Norton, now I use Sunbelt Kerio Firewall, AVG Free and Windows Defender and seems every boy and his dog uses these three at least.
When I have encountered major probs before the others won’t fix have used a prog called ‘Trojanhunter’, think the link is
http://www.trojanhunter.com
Not to be confused with the milfhunter.
This has a 30 day trial and was the only thing that got rid of some crap I had on my old system.
USe firefox as mentioned and thunderbird (instead of outlook express) if you need a calender like Outlook use Sunbird. Mozilla also do a Mac browser now called Camino or something.
Having said that am building a new system with an Athlon 64 and Ubuntu Linux.
Keep automatic updates switched on and make sure the malicious spyware updates are installed.
Yeah, Hijackthis (I think it’s still supported) is what you need - Spybot and Adaware don’t do a good job with browser hijacks, which is what you have. I’ve had great luck with avast! antivirus, which is free and barely takes up any memory. It has great resident protection, which works for P2P and IM as well.[/quote]
not even hijackthis did the trick in my case.
Like I said if you want to be 100% sure you have to gut the sucker then put in all the anti-virus stuff before you even begin surfing the web. That, unfortunately, is the only way to be sure.
A good way to be sure is run the anti-virus then check the Windows Task Manager (hit Alt-Ctrl-Del at the same time) and you’ll see all the weird virus /adware crap running on your computer.