Computer Techs need your help!!

[GrnBay007]

This afternoon I started getting a bunch of warnings popping up on my screen saying my computer is infected with blah, blah, blah....bunch of stuff. A variety of these warnings come up and then it ultimately wants me to activate XP Home Security 2012. I googled it and it sounds like it is a fake antivirus application that does nothing but take your money.

So how do I remove this thing or get it to stop popping up???

Help....Please!

[Tarlam!]

Throw it away and buy a new PC? They are cheap as chips these days. Prolly cheaper than that programme they>'re trying to sell you!

[GrnBay007]

Throw it away and buy a new PC? They are cheap as chips these days. Prolly cheaper than that programme they>'re trying to sell you!

When I saw you responded in this thread I somehow knew what your reply would be before I even opened it.
No can do this close to x-mas.

[Harlan Huckleby]

The virus (or maybe it is a worm, whatever) is annoying to get rid of, but probably not doing much harm.

Often there are dedicated programs to get rid of particular flavors of the kind of problem you are seeing. what virus name does it claim you are infected with? what is name of program it wants you to buy? This forum will tell you how to remove particular infections of the sort you are seeing:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html

I have found two programs to be good at cleaning up infected machines:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix

Malwarebytes is a paid program, but whatever you download for free seems to work fine. By running these two programs, you will get rid of spyware and latent infections that are hanging around, they usually will find something even if you have anti-malware software running.

Experts will tell you it is impossible to be sure that an infection is completely removed, you really have to reformat and reload all software to be sure. But you have a sissy infection, you'll be ok.

[SkinBasket]

I had a terrible version of an old disease recently, the google redirect virus. Malwarebytes failed. Try it first though, as that and Spybot - Search & Destroy are the two everyone tries first, even though I thought one of those basically tells you what's wrong then asks you to upgrade to the full version to fix it.

This is what finally worked for me, the trail version: http://www.immunet.com/main/index.html

Regardless, you should download Microsoft Security Essentials to protect your computer. It's free, and it does a better job than Norton, which had no clue my computer was infected, much less how to fix it. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ity-essentials

[red]

i've gotten this virus like 6 times in the last week, all from the same porn site. one day i'll learn

turn off your computer, when you start it back up, start pressing F8 repeatedly until a screen shows up giving you different options to restart your computer

select safe mode with networking

when windows starts, get on the internet and download malwarebytes. once you've downloaded and installed it, right click on it and select "run as administrator"

when it opens it should say that an update is available, let it download an update

after that, run a quick scan

it should find the virusus. then restart your computer. when windows restarts (the normal way) it will ask if you would like to let malwayrebytes make changes to your computer.

things should be fixed. if not. repeat everything until its gone

[Little Whiskey]

i've gotten this virus like 6 times in the last week, all from the same porn site.

are you saying that you and 007 visit the same porn site?

[red]

are you saying that you and 007 visit the same porn site?

we've probably shared naked pics of each other and had cyber sex like a thousand times without even knowing it

[Little Whiskey]

we've probably shared naked pics of each other and had cyber sex like a thousand times without even knowing it

that fast, huh. i think they make a pill for that. not sure if it would work for Cyber E.D.

[Harlan Huckleby]

turn off your computer, when you start it back up, start pressing F8 repeatedly until a screen shows up giving you different options to restart your computer

select safe mode with networking

I forgot about this step. Sometimes you absolutely have to do this step, otherwise some of the buggers actually block you from downloading virus-removing software. But do look in that forum to see if your particular problem can be remooved simply and directly.

I found that combofix found problems that malwarebytes missed

[Zool]

Download and run Spybot Search and Destroy.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Once your system is clean download and install AVG Free antivirus. If you are already running Symantec or McAfee antivirus remove them first.

http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage

[Tarlam!]

Or, throw it away and buy a new PC. It's how i solve it.

[Joemailman]

Or go over to the basement of Partial's parent's house and use his computer.

[retailguy]

Or go over to the basement of Partial's parent's house and use his computer.

That won't work. He's too busy waxing it to make sure it doesn't get any dust or fingerprints on it.

[red]

i don't think any of us are cool enough to use a mac to tell the truth