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virus and popups
Name: FBI Agent Date: September 27, 2006 at 01:27:07 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: 1.79GHz Celeron/ 384MB DD Product: eMachines
Comment:
well i just got a virus and it keeps giving me all kinds of popups. does anyone know of a way to fix this?
Name: Kaithlyn Date: September 27, 2006 at 03:05:32 Pacific
Reply:
you probably have an adware, not virus. i suggesst you to install some antispyware to get rid of it. if you don't use any and need an advice which one to choose, take a look at anti-spyware comparison.
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Response Number 2
Name: FBI Agent Date: September 27, 2006 at 22:19:54 Pacific
Reply:
well i've had ad-aware and spybot installed since day-one and since i got the virus i've installed spyware blaster. that does give me a good idea to do a test on both spybot and ad-aware but last time i did it i got nothing. i also have avg and i ran a test using that and it's database SUCKS compared to kaspersky or it's way different cuz avg found nothing and kaspersky found like 5 different things. anyway, thanks for the advice. i'll try doing a buncha tests again and see what i get... probably nothing as usualy :(
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