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Spyware Malware - Programs Blocked
Name: Yarboze Date: November 29, 2008 at 16:20:20 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: AMD Product: Self
Comment:
Hi, I have been going back and forth from using spybot search and destroy and i THOUGHT it was working. Every five hours or so i would double check for spyware with spybot once again and there would be a whole lot of malware/trojans back again. It seems like when I ran AVG that it said some DLL's had changed. Now it seems like this time a lot of different stuff has happened. I cannot open certain websites, I cannot even begin to install new programs (they will not even start up after I download them), and it is really confusing. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, this is my wife's computer that is messed up and I can check it on my own...
Name: anupam Date: November 30, 2008 at 00:04:09 Pacific
Reply:
Spybot is not so much effective antispyware nowadays.
Download Malwarebytes Antimalware, Superantispyware, Spyware Doctor Starter Edition. You can also do a scan with Spyware Terminator. Update each one of them.
Turn off the system restore. Then login to safe mode, and run scans with antivirus and the antispywares.
If asked by an expert here, you can also post a log of HiJackThis.
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