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Name: General
Date: August 22, 2008 at 06:42:06 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: AMD athilon 512 ram
Product: Unkown
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Yesterday my mozilla and IE browser began behaving oddly. The response time became very slow - like 56k and anything I entered - like searches or logins - led to the browser freezing. I was able to access anything that needed just a click on a link.
I still cannot search anything on google or any other search engine.

Today I am accessing this site from work. I think I have a virus which has hijacked my computer. What do I need to do?



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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: August 22, 2008 at 09:03:42 Pacific
Reply:

There are some really great free cleaners listed in the link of my signature.
I would suggest you start there and run those first to help clean up your PC. Then if you still have probs post back, Thanks
You may also wanna do a free online scan here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php
and remove all it finds

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Response Number 2
Name: General
Date: August 25, 2008 at 04:16:04 Pacific
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Thanks for the tip XpUser4Real. Unfortunately although xscan did pick up something - not enough to sort out the problem. Basically this spyware/virus is not letting me access yahoo or use google at all. I am able to use MSN for searching and email.
Any further suggestions?


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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: August 27, 2008 at 07:26:21 Pacific
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Did you try the free cleaners listed?
Also you may want to try D/L Avast free and have it do a bootscan on reboot. Remove all it finds.

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Response Number 4
Name: General
Date: August 27, 2008 at 07:38:50 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks XpUser4Real the Super Antispyware did the trick, although it still picks up trojans on my computer whenever I run a scan!
At least i can check my yahoo mail and carry out searches on google now!


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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: August 27, 2008 at 13:18:50 Pacific
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Glad to hear it helped you!
Thanks for posting back

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