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My computer is full of viruses
Name: viviter Date: October 13, 2008 at 21:33:23 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 1gb
Comment:
HEY I NEED HELP please, MY PC IS FULL OF VIRUSES BECAUSE WHEN I CONNECT MY EXTERNAL DRIVE TO TRANSFER FILES FROM MY PC TO MY MAC THE MAC SHOWS LOTS OF LOCKED FILES THAT CAND BE DELETED THERE BUT I KNOW THEY ARE PC VIRUSES, I DOWNLOADED A VIDEO FROM THE INTERNET A LONG TIME A GO AND IT ASKED ME FOR A NEW CODEC I DIDN'T HAVE, I NEVER DO THIS WITHOUT PREVIOUS INQUIRING BUT I WAS GOING ON A TRIP, WANTED TO MAKE A DVD OUT OF IT SO I DOWNLOADED IT AND THEN CHAOS, MY VIDO FILES CAN NO LONGER BE EDITED OR TRANSFERED TO MY VIDEO PLAYING DEVICE, MY NOD32 ANTIVIRUS ALWAYS PROMPTS A MESSAGE THAT TELLS ME IT CAN'T UPDATE ANYMORE AND THE COMPUTER IS BEHAVING SLOW AND WEIRD!!! HOW DO I GET HELP FOR THIS? I NOTICED IT IS BECOMING A VERY COMMON PROBLEM. AND ALSO, MY DAD ALWAYS GETS IN THOSE HARMFULL PORN SITES, I ALWAYS TELL HIM THAT THIS SITES ARE HARMFULL BUT HE Keeps doing this, how can I protect my computer against this or how can I BLock his access to this sites. THANKS
Name: KirstyN Date: October 14, 2008 at 04:31:45 Pacific
Reply:
It doesn't have to be porn sites that are highly risky with viruses, there are many different sites out there and genres of sites that can pose a common threat.
Anyway, what anti-virus software do you have installed? I'd recommend grabbing a couple of the popular scanners on the market and installing them on the computer if still possible. Switch off your system restore, boot in to safe mode and try running the standard scan and delete. This takes care of quite a few viruses but if its serious, you'll have to go a few steps further.
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland) Date: October 14, 2008 at 05:24:44 Pacific
Reply:
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Response Number 3
Name: viviter Date: November 6, 2008 at 06:22:11 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, i DUNNO what to do, i tried to run the software I downloaded from the pcfixreview. I can't run my system in safemode cause when i hit on "safe mode" ora any other like "safe mode with internet access" it will just start over and ask me again until i hit normal mode, and the software from pcfixreview starts running and shows that there's 2000 problems and before it finishes it justs closes, the window just collpases!!! please help, im desperate what can i do, the other day i turned on the computer and windows loaded and then the mouse would move with the little hourglass and couldn't click on anything for the longest time until i restarted ir for like 6 times, help please.
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