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Audre CH.com Junior Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 73 x0\|Three Rivers\|USA\|\|0\|0\|MI,Michigan Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #25 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 12:50am It's only 10 minutes. While it may take awhile to download it, it's pretty handy to help him if the others don't work. I guess if you get to the point where you need the video and it's too long to download, if I can't find a good step-by-step already made, then I'll just make one for you.
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Reply #26 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 9:18am

Yeah, you better use 1.21 Gigawatts! (Back to the Future reference).

Try restoring to a much earlier date than a few days. My dad had to go back about a month, but you may have to do more or less depending on when you actually contracted the disease.

And restoring is relativly safe and better yet, free, and best of all you don't have to load yet more stuff on your PC which even if they fix somethings, could cause even more slow-downs.

Keep me posted.

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Patrick_A CH.com Hall of Famer Offline If i could get my hands on that wascally Wabbit Posts: 867 Duncan, SC Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #27 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 5:06pm One more time Charlie.... Mozilla Firefox will fix that problem! I will never go back to IE and I was a diehard supporter of it. Patrick
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #28 - Oct 19^th, 2008 at 8:24pm Thanks guys. I'm going to try lots of stuff here. If nothing works, I know a friend that has bailed me out a couple of times. Time for some R & R Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Charlie
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Reply #29 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 1:44am

Something I just remembered: When this started the other day at the beginning, I got something about "de-shelf" or something very close that that lasted a few seconds and then my computer shut off and I had to restart. I can't believe that I forgot to mention that.

Today I managed to download a bunch of pretty good looking stuff from AVAST. It found a lot of stuff that my other scans didn't. It didn't clobber this thing though. It's tough.

I'm about to go postal.

Thanks kids. At least I'm learning a lot about this stuff.

Charlie

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Reply #30 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 6:27pm

Does anybody know which of the scores of fixes for this thing are relatively safe to use? Although I've downloaded good stuff that you recommend, even about to try Mozilla for a browser after downloading it (takes hours for some of the stuff), it looks like I have to try some of them. I just don't know enough. I don't understand why by using a different browser will stop this thing though.

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Reply #31 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 6:30pm

Patrick_A wrote on Oct 19^th, 2008 at 5:06pm:

One more time Charlie.... Mozilla Firefox will fix that problem!
I will never go back to IE and I was a diehard supporter of it.

Patrick

I plan on it after I finish my ebay stuff later tonight. It takes hours for lots of stuff to download. I don't understand how doing this will kill this thing but I'll give it a try.

Thanks and I'll let you know.

Charlie

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Reply #32 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 8:15pm

Using Firefox itself will not fix the problem. It's known to be a safer browser than Internet Explorer so it can possibly protect you from other malicious attacks because IE has more backdoor holes.

The only things I personally would use are: Ad-aware, Spybot, Avast virus, AVG virus and there's an online virus scan that I wouldn't recommend to you since you're on dial-up.

If you have Spybot, turn on the TeaTimer program with it. It's a nice safe guard against unwanted viruses embedding themselves into your registry so that every time you start your computer the virus starts up too. I found that when it popped up asking if I wanted to allow it or deny it, if I just kept the little window open and didn't hit anything it just sat there and didn't cause any of the annoying task bar pop ups. That's not a fix, but it's a way around the annoyance. If the safe programs don't work, unfortunately you'll probably have to do it the manual way.

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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #33 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 8:42pm Been using spybot for a long long time. I have all the others now. Glad they are there and they found some creepy stuff lurking. I'll try to download Mozilla - Firefox. Can't hurt. Thanks kids. I'll have to get a geek. I can't put up with this for much longer. Charlie
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Jonny Ex Member	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #34 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 9:40pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Spend a buck......these dudes will take control of your puter and fix it without even coming to your house.
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Reply #35 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 9:59pm

Charlie:
Tell Avast to run a boot time scan. If it finds anything, use option 1 and nuke it. Since it will go through every damn file on your machine it will take awhile. But it should catch the offending virus, or trojan. Even if it changes its name.
Don't put anything in the virus chest, or quaratine it. Just use the first option and delete the bastard. Stop messing about with all the adaware, and spyware stuff. Just go in there with a boot scan and nuke the suckers. No more mister nice guy.

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Reply #36 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 1:56pm

It's gone! Have a friend that knows more about this stuff than I can imagine. He downloaded something called: Malware Bytes anti malware, found it and sent it somewhere to hide I guess. The guy won't accept a dime for doing this. I've tried to pay him something before. I've gotten so old that he feels sorry for me I guess... Cool

I downloaded a lot of good stuff that you suggested and am trying Firefox now. As always with puters, I learn things in small bathes.

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Reply #37 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 1:56pm

It's gone! Have a friend that knows more about this stuff than I can imagine. He downloaded something called: Malware Bytes anti malware, found it and sent it somewhere to hide I guess. The guy won't accept a dime for doing this. I've tried to pay him something before. I've gotten so old that he feels sorry for me I guess... Cool

I downloaded a lot of good stuff that you suggested and am trying Firefox now. As always with puters, I learn things in small bathes.

Thanks again kids! Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

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