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Post by Clover on Apr 9, 2010 21:09:29 GMT -5
my laptop has a virus. it's a dell.. vista. i cant even do anything on it because i just get endless popups that are informing me that so and so file is infected blablabla. i dont know how to go about fixing it.
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Post by Neco on Apr 9, 2010 23:26:50 GMT -5
Try Malware Bytes. When I had a worm a few weeks ago, it knocked that sucker out and I haven't had any other infections since. ALSO, do do do uninstall any McAfee you have on your system, since that tends to let through more bugs than it stops Once I took that off my laptop, and started running other malware software, I was only hit by Vundo once, had to reinstall and that was a few years ago. Since then, I haven't had anything that Malware Bytes hasn't been able to remove. AND IS THAT Christian Slader in your icon?! Cause if it is... wth, Clover xD
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Post by Clover on Apr 10, 2010 0:04:08 GMT -5
^ SHUT UP HE WAS CUTE WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER. :[ and heathers is the best movie ever.. so HAH.
buuut, my brother fixed it for me. idk what he did but it's all cleared up. :B
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Post by Neco on Apr 10, 2010 2:06:37 GMT -5
I still need to see that movie, now that you have reminded me, haha. It's just sitting on my HDD.
And yeeey your computer be fixed. Hopefully it wasn't too deep down in there... Vundo went down so hard into my computer it jacked up the RAM and didn't wanna let me reformat >___>
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Post by Clover on Apr 10, 2010 2:48:46 GMT -5
oh god D: it seems fine for now, so i'm hoping it'll stay that way, haha. :B
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Post by xemzx on Apr 13, 2010 15:29:45 GMT -5
My brother got a virus recently or should I say 'virus' because it was'nt actually a true virus - it was some sort of advert (he did'nt know at the time though) which constantly popped up whenever he did ANYTHING saying 'we have detected such and such virus (which was'nt there what so ever) and asked him to click something to get rid of the 'virus' which would have resulted him in buying the anitvirus. Could have been that or something similar because my boyfreind got one recently too. If it was that and ever happens again you could try set your computer to safe mode by pressing one of the F buttons (cant recall which, but I think it tells you) when you turn your computer on and the pop ups should'nt come up and then you can find the advert thing which is 'hiding somewhere' in your files and remove it. I know this probably sounds really wierd and not very computer-technical at all but I'm IT illiterate! May not have even been what I'm on about, so just ignore me if thats the case! XD
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Post by Willow on Jun 21, 2010 14:49:42 GMT -5
I've had viruses or whatever before and had to have my computer taken in to a computer place to have it cleaned up. They can totaly get rid of any viruses or any problems your computer is curently having. Also having a virus protection program will help prevent you computer from getting viruses and other bugs. But you have to use it/update it every day. I have a virus protection program and I really never get viruses anymore.
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