Posted: 5/2/2008 8:46:49 PM EDT
| I have a pop-up that I can't get rid of. I have Norton 360 but it didn't find anything. It is one of those pop-ups that says you have a virus and you need to click it to get software to fix it. I also tried system restore to a previous date/time but it was unable to complete. |
+1 And Norton sucks. Delete, install free AVG anti-virus. Also, I have heard of some of those spybots just like that one coming in through an unfirewalled port you may have open.. A computer geek will be along shortly to either confirm or deny. |
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I had the exact same virus on my PC a few months ago and it was a real pain to get rid of. Neither Norton or Ad Aware could detect it or get rid of it. Someone here sent me to a link to a program called SmitFraudFix. If you download the free program and follow the directions it completely removed the damn thing from my PC. It will work. SmitFraudFix Try it out and let me know how it goes |
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i've had good luck with housecall housecall.trendmicro.com assuming you're using windows xp, restart into safe mode with networking and visit the site. |
Well, I got rid of it. It had my system restore messed up so it wouldn't roll back to a previous date. It also altered my google searches and added porn and beheadings for the first 8 or 9 results no matter what I searched for. If I googled sesame street it brought up a link for You Tube porn.  It was also taking my searches for spybot and the other programs you have been listing here and linking all the results back to itself. I couldn't run ad aware or anything. I finally saved all my pictures and music stuff that it probably didn't infect and restored the whole computer to factory settings. I then set everything back up and scanned my pictures that I put on a thumbdrive before reinstalling on the computer. Everything is fine now. Be careful if you go to even a short film site if it isn't a non-download site like You Tube. Why do people write these programs? |