Hello, I have had quite a long week with my pc. It started off with a ton of spyware malware, whatever you call it. it downloaded many programs that I never even knew it downloaded, I had a bunch of anti spyware i never downloaded, porn, and some other weird stuff. I used some software that kills spyware, it killed a bunch of spyware but not all of it. So 2 days ago i bought software from staples called GhostSurf 2005 Platinum and deleted and other stuff that the free spyware killers didnt kill off. So now my computer doesn't have spyware, even when I scan nothing comes up. Problem I have now is I still have popups coming up maybe 2-3 times an hour to 0 times an hour. But my main problem I'm having now is i get a ton of grey window popup boxes asking me if i want to continue running scripts. Its for a ton of different sites and I'm getting a ton of them every hour, and on my ghost surf the images chached rises continiously from time i boot up. My pc now runs much slower then it was a week ago. Please give me advise to fix this, thanks.

hello mario, you have run spyware programs, but have you checked to see if you have a worm, or trojan installed possibly. Remember that worms basically open the door to your comp, and viruses replicate files, hence slowing your computer down. I'd suggest running a scan for viruses as with that number of spyware found its more then likely you have one or more.

I agree 100% with Beta's post. Most viruses out there today are designed to open up a little door to let in spyware/adware/whateverware. On top of that, since you say there is no spyware on your computer, it could be a different kind of virus that has nothing to do with spyware. Scan for viruses. I use AVG Free Edition and HIGHLY recommend it. As the name hints, it's free to download. Another suggestion I have is to make sure that Script Debugging is off. In Internet Explorer, click Tools->Internet Options. Click the "Advanced" tab. Find "Disable Script Debugging" in the "Browsing" section. Make sure that it is checked. Hit up "http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com" to make sure you have the most recent updates. ANY updates are good, but especially Internet Explorer updates in this case.

In addition to disabling script debugging, turn off "Display a notification about every script error". That's really the biggest one. I didn't really think of it until right after I posted the last message. "Disable Script Debugging is mostly, if not entirely, for Visual Basic Scripts. There ya go.

thanks very much, I just had a friend last night tell me about AVG as well, I have a ton of trjoans on my computer, rescanning and deleteing them with AVG. I'll let you know how it turns out. Also I will be turning off the script debugging and display, sounds like that'll help me surf better and play games better as well. Thanks for the help :)))

Just to be sure you've got it all, can I recommend the free on-line virus scan at the following site: housecall.trendmicro.com It managed to pick up a couple of trojans that my previous ( Norton) anti-virus failed to.

this is strange btw, both options "disable script debuggging" and "display a notification about every script area" were check or not checked as stated above. However I still get them and I dont know why