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After a long while of not scanning for viruses (I didn't think I needed to! I don't go to dodgy sites, so why would I have one?), I noticed that my computer was being really slow, so I scanned with AVG. And what do I find but like 20 trojans.
Whatever the case, removing them with the antivirus programs has only made it WORSE... as now I get spam popups, even in Firefox (you know, how it's supposedly "immune" to the IE-like malware?)
The thing is - I really can't afford to reformat. I have LOTS of programs I got from Giveaway of the Day - almost 100, even, and I really don't want to lose them. I don't suppose there's some backup thingy that will let you put programs back on that are currently installed after a reformat, is there?
An idea that I heard about was to get a Live-booting Linux CD, and run it with an antivirus - really a perfect way to get rid of them I think, as the Linux wouldn't be affected by whatever crap's on my hard drive. But I'd need help with it - I can find and burn a Ubuntu image, but where do I go from there?
I've tried all the programs imaginable - AVG is my top choice and preferred one... but it seems that all the stuff I remove in AVG just comes back after a reboot. Same goes for Ad-Aware and Spybot. I heard from someone that TrojanHunter was one of the best antiviruses, but the problem is I had it before and used up my trial. And I'm not paying $50 for a key! (Unless you can make like a new XP account and that'll let you use another trial
)
What other programs are there? The associates at Micro Center are always telling people to buy Spyware Doctor... surely there's a demo of that out there... I got Symantec security suite, and will scan with that tonight.
I'm just really frustrated as these problems are turning my computer into a nightmare, and I don't know how to fix them! It's gotten to the point where it's somehow corrupted my sound card, and so now I get no sound. Even upgrading/rolling back the driver doesn't work.
Any ideas?
After a long while of not scanning for viruses (I didn't think I needed to! I don't go to dodgy sites, so why would I have one?), I noticed that my computer was being really slow, so I scanned with AVG. And what do I find but like 20 trojans.
Whatever the case, removing them with the antivirus programs has only made it WORSE... as now I get spam popups, even in Firefox (you know, how it's supposedly "immune" to the IE-like malware?)
The thing is - I really can't afford to reformat. I have LOTS of programs I got from Giveaway of the Day - almost 100, even, and I really don't want to lose them. I don't suppose there's some backup thingy that will let you put programs back on that are currently installed after a reformat, is there?
An idea that I heard about was to get a Live-booting Linux CD, and run it with an antivirus - really a perfect way to get rid of them I think, as the Linux wouldn't be affected by whatever crap's on my hard drive. But I'd need help with it - I can find and burn a Ubuntu image, but where do I go from there?
I've tried all the programs imaginable - AVG is my top choice and preferred one... but it seems that all the stuff I remove in AVG just comes back after a reboot. Same goes for Ad-Aware and Spybot. I heard from someone that TrojanHunter was one of the best antiviruses, but the problem is I had it before and used up my trial. And I'm not paying $50 for a key! (Unless you can make like a new XP account and that'll let you use another trial
)What other programs are there? The associates at Micro Center are always telling people to buy Spyware Doctor... surely there's a demo of that out there... I got Symantec security suite, and will scan with that tonight.
I'm just really frustrated as these problems are turning my computer into a nightmare, and I don't know how to fix them! It's gotten to the point where it's somehow corrupted my sound card, and so now I get no sound. Even upgrading/rolling back the driver doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Download Malwarebytes Anti malware, Update it right away. Shut down your machine and restart in safe mode. Run Malwarebytes using perform full scan. Remove everything found and reboot your machine, it should start in normal mode now. Run Malwarebytes again just to be sure, but your machine should be clean at this point. This got rid of the Vundo crap I got on my machine for me. Good luck bud.
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