PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW ABOUT COMPUTERS, TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS AND OFFER ADVICE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I NEED YOUR HELP. PLEASE
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I chose to wipe my drive because I didn't know what was going on and my computer was getting worse. However, it's worth it to try to install this update and see if that helps.
That'll teach ya to follow any unsolicited advice from a pop-up...
If you still have your recovery CD, wipe your drive, start over, if you've gotten a rootkit virus, that's the only reliable way to remove it. If it's corrupted to your Master Boot record, you're hosed and you'll probably need to buy a new HD. You'll for sure want some kind of Anti-virus on your computer... but you knew that already, being a PC owner.
Free software doesn't always remove viruses. You may want to go looking on Norton's site to see if they have a specific fix for the virus you installed...
See, the thing is, I don't think I have a bug on my computer that is keylogging and taking screenshots. Mostly because the sites I've seen about Perfect Defender say that the "bug" I have is actually a fake name that Perfect Defender makes up in order to scare people like me. What I think I have is just something that creates popups in order to get me to buy Perfect Defender. Is it worth wiping my harddrive just for that
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I'm not certain of the lexicon that AVG is using, but it seems likely that it's contained them for now. You may want to see if there's a way to empty your "vault". The pop-ups could be a symptom of the virus, if they're all for the same product. You may have to uninstall/reinstall your browser if you're using something other than IE. If you're using IE, check Microsoft's site for how to remove them
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Siami was on Live Journal one night when we got a variation of the same virus. We took the computer off-line for awhile, until we got bold enough to try a couple things. The McAfee from aol didn't catch it, but Spy-Bot software I tried may have caught part of it, but I think I didn't make the right choices when it asked me whether to allow certain registry changes, and then it wouldn't pick it up any more. Finally we removed the anti-virus we had been using and installed a version of McAfee that we can use because the state of PA allows employees to install their anti-virus on employee's home machines. When that ran, it detected a lot of trojans that it was able to remove. It took a couple of weeks, but we seem to be clear now. Gan batte ne!
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I chose to wipe my drive because I didn't know what was going on and my computer was getting worse. However, it's worth it to try to install this update and see if that helps.
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If you still have your recovery CD, wipe your drive, start over, if you've gotten a rootkit virus, that's the only reliable way to remove it. If it's corrupted to your Master Boot record, you're hosed and you'll probably need to buy a new HD. You'll for sure want some kind of Anti-virus on your computer... but you knew that already, being a PC owner.
Free software doesn't always remove viruses. You may want to go looking on Norton's site to see if they have a specific fix for the virus you installed...
::pats my mac on the head::
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