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Answer» Quote from: driverax on April 18, 2007, 08:52:58 PM Spybot found 163 problems. I could only remove 136 of them and unfortunately one of the remaining ones is the one causing our problems. We still get pushed to a site we did not want. I know I can do a search in this site to find a good anti-virus but I was hoping you guys (or gals) can refer me to a few of the better ones. I don't know what the record is, but you must be close. Proper protection is required for safe computing. Did you update spybot before you ran it in safe mode? Did you use the immunize feature? What antivirus did you load? Quote from: GX1_Man on April 19, 2007, 04:29:46 AM Quote from: driverax on April 18, 2007, 08:52:58 PM Spybot found 163 problems. I could only remove 136 of them and unfortunately one of the remaining ones is the one causing our problems. We still get pushed to a site we did not want. I know I can do a search in this site to find a good anti-virus but I was hoping you guys (or gals) can refer me to a few of the better ones. I don't know what the record is, but you must be close. I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely.What are the last two items that can't be removed? Quote from: CBMatt on April 19, 2007, 04:50:54 AM I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely. I am sorry she was infected. You must teach her to practice safe computing. Lot's of times they leave that up to the man...which isn't the safest method. Quote from: GX1_Man on April 19, 2007, 04:22:52 PM Quote from: CBMatt on April 19, 2007, 04:50:54 AM I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely. I am sorry she was infected. You must teach her to practice safe computing. I think she's having a bit of trouble catching on, but she's doing better. The best thing for her to do is not let others use her computer. She's still gonna need me to check up on it once in awhile, though, I'm sure.Read you post. GX1/raptor- have not installed an anti-visus yet. And I did up-date Spybot just now, ran it in safe and found a few more problems, the 2 that remain are Huntbar and WEB Hancer. and no I did not run the immunize feature because I know nothing about it. P/S I still get pushed to other search engines and web sites still but not as often, there's still something wrong. Quote Read you post. GX1/raptor- have not installed an anti-visus yet. This means you will continue to have issues.I did install AVG last night. Ran it and found zero problems. The count got up to 1510 and froze, I'll try again tonite. Is this an automatic anti-virus or do I run this when I want?AVG does have a scanner type called a "On Access" scanner, which scans files going through your computer memory (and things processing through Kernal.exe for Windows XP and below) Quote from: driverax on April 20, 2007, 08:02:13 AM I did install AVG last night. Ran it and found zero problems. The count got up to 1510 and froze, I'll try again tonite. Is this an automatic anti-virus or do I run this when I want? Depends on which AVG product you have...AVG Free which is their virus program can be scheduled to both update and run at a set time each day. AVG Anti-spyware also has this feature as well but the feature times out after 30 days so you have to run manual scans...the product other than that remains fully functional. Which one did you install ??I installed the AVG anti-virus free edition. It still freezes after 2min 05 seconds and 1510 OBJECT w/no threats. Should I re-install, use another anti-virus or leave it alone? It may not be freezing...i know it looks this way when it is scanning the registry or other large directories... Run it late at nite when you don't need the machine and let it finish. I would also run chkdsk on that HDD just to be sure it's not a problem with the HDD.Patio, On my latest scan I ran it and left and I did have 145,000 objects scanned with 81 threats. 66 were deleated, 8 were moved to vault. So you are right it did not freeze, I just got impatient. What is meant by" chkdsk on this HDD"?Right click on the C: drive in My Computer and select pproperties. On the first page you will SEE DISK Cleanup...run that. Then select Tools and run disk checking.

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Quote from: driverax on April 18, 2007, 08:52:58 PM

Spybot found 163 problems. I could only remove 136 of them and unfortunately one of the remaining ones is the one causing our problems. We still get pushed to a site we did not want. I know I can do a search in this site to find a good anti-virus but I was hoping you guys (or gals) can refer me to a few of the better ones.

I don't know what the record is, but you must be close. Proper protection is required for safe computing. Did you update spybot before you ran it in safe mode? Did you use the immunize feature? What antivirus did you load? Quote from: GX1_Man on April 19, 2007, 04:29:46 AM

Quote from: driverax on April 18, 2007, 08:52:58 PM
Spybot found 163 problems. I could only remove 136 of them and unfortunately one of the remaining ones is the one causing our problems. We still get pushed to a site we did not want. I know I can do a search in this site to find a good anti-virus but I was hoping you guys (or gals) can refer me to a few of the better ones.

I don't know what the record is, but you must be close.

I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely.What are the last two items that can't be removed? Quote from: CBMatt on April 19, 2007, 04:50:54 AM

I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely.

I am sorry she was infected. You must teach her to practice safe computing. Lot's of times they leave that up to the man...which isn't the safest method. Quote from: GX1_Man on April 19, 2007, 04:22:52 PM

Quote from: CBMatt on April 19, 2007, 04:50:54 AM
I cleaned up my girlfriend's laptop the other week and removed about 247 infected files. Dialers, downloaders, trojans, and adware galore. Took me two days to clean that sucker completely.

I am sorry she was infected. You must teach her to practice safe computing.

I think she's having a bit of trouble catching on, but she's doing better. The best thing for her to do is not let others use her computer. She's still gonna need me to check up on it once in awhile, though, I'm sure.Read you post. GX1/raptor- have not installed an anti-visus yet. And I did up-date Spybot just now, ran it in safe and found a few more problems, the 2 that remain are Huntbar and WEB Hancer. and no I did not run the immunize feature because I know nothing about it. P/S I still get pushed to other search engines and web sites still but not as often, there's still something wrong. Quote

Read you post. GX1/raptor- have not installed an anti-visus yet.

This means you will continue to have issues.I did install AVG last night. Ran it and found zero problems. The count got up to 1510 and froze, I'll try again tonite. Is this an automatic anti-virus or do I run this when I want?AVG does have a scanner type called a "On Access" scanner, which scans files going through your computer memory (and things processing through Kernal.exe for Windows XP and below) Quote from: driverax on April 20, 2007, 08:02:13 AM

I did install AVG last night. Ran it and found zero problems. The count got up to 1510 and froze, I'll try again tonite. Is this an automatic anti-virus or do I run this when I want?

Depends on which AVG product you have...AVG Free which is their virus program can be scheduled to both update and run at a set time each day.
AVG Anti-spyware also has this feature as well but the feature times out after 30 days so you have to run manual scans...the product other than that remains fully functional.

Which one did you install ??I installed the AVG anti-virus free edition. It still freezes after 2min 05 seconds and 1510 OBJECT w/no threats. Should I re-install, use another anti-virus or leave it alone? It may not be freezing...i know it looks this way when it is scanning the registry or other large directories...

Run it late at nite when you don't need the machine and let it finish.

I would also run chkdsk on that HDD just to be sure it's not a problem with the HDD.Patio, On my latest scan I ran it and left and I did have 145,000 objects scanned with 81 threats. 66 were deleated, 8 were moved to vault. So you are right it did not freeze, I just got impatient.
What is meant by" chkdsk on this HDD"?Right click on the C: drive in My Computer and select pproperties.
On the first page you will SEE DISK Cleanup...run that.
Then select Tools and run disk checking.

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