CrazyLea
10-07-2006, 23:10
OK, well I suddenly have a rather big problem.. with spyware. I'm not exactly clued up on what it is, but I do get the basics... I came home today, with my mum complaining of a virus, so I looked at the comp, to see if I could see what was wrong and this is some of it..
- When I click on IE, it doesn't come up with my default homepage, but a website about Anti-spyware or something, not sure whether it's lejit so wanted to find out more first..
- When I try to run my virus scan (McAfee) it crashes, so therefore not able to complete it. Inspite of that, I do still have random pop-ups come up (from McAfee) telling me of PUP, so I remove the ones that will remove, but some won't remove :searchme:
- Every so often I have two little pop up things saying about a security warning, and it has my IP address, and another one..not sure what that is about..
That ain't all of it but, I'm basically just wondering, is there away of removing the spyware manually? Or will I have to buy an Anti-Spyware program? And if so, can anyone reccommend a good value for money one, as I have no idea on which ones are good or not.
Also, what is Adware? Is that a good or bad thing? Cause on some websites I visit, or even if I refresh some websites I get a message saying 'The page you are looking for is blocked by the adware on your PC. Remove it with System Doctor software. CLICK HERE.' So is that good or bad :searchme:
Oh and this just came up...in my taskbar tray thing, it says I have a trojan...that doesn't sound good....
Ok sorry about the lengthy post, just not quite sure what to do about it, probably worrying about nothing, but I don't want it to get worse.. so thanks in advance if anyone can help me.
- When I click on IE, it doesn't come up with my default homepage, but a website about Anti-spyware or something, not sure whether it's lejit so wanted to find out more first..
- When I try to run my virus scan (McAfee) it crashes, so therefore not able to complete it. Inspite of that, I do still have random pop-ups come up (from McAfee) telling me of PUP, so I remove the ones that will remove, but some won't remove :searchme:
- Every so often I have two little pop up things saying about a security warning, and it has my IP address, and another one..not sure what that is about..
That ain't all of it but, I'm basically just wondering, is there away of removing the spyware manually? Or will I have to buy an Anti-Spyware program? And if so, can anyone reccommend a good value for money one, as I have no idea on which ones are good or not.
Also, what is Adware? Is that a good or bad thing? Cause on some websites I visit, or even if I refresh some websites I get a message saying 'The page you are looking for is blocked by the adware on your PC. Remove it with System Doctor software. CLICK HERE.' So is that good or bad :searchme:
Oh and this just came up...in my taskbar tray thing, it says I have a trojan...that doesn't sound good....
Ok sorry about the lengthy post, just not quite sure what to do about it, probably worrying about nothing, but I don't want it to get worse.. so thanks in advance if anyone can help me.