I think there is some kind of adware in my system which is showing me some anti virus scan reports saying I have trojans and spywares in my PC. How to remove this virus??

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I recently bought a used laptop from a friend of mine and its riddled with adware and viruses. Instead of going through all of the hubub of cleaning it out manually, I want to completely swipe the disk and restore it to how it was when it was brand new. I know somewhat how to do it on xp, but can someone give me a guide to how to do it on Vista?
I didn’t get any disks with the laptop as it’s rather old (about two years) and my friend couldn’t find any of the original packaging. Is there any other way?

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just got a trojan adware.w32.expdwnldr virus which keeps popping up a system alert saying I have to pay for anti spyware to fix it. I’ve read that people have downloaded and removed it with spynomore, so i payed dollars did a full system scan deleted and removed any trojan viruses that were found. I’ve restarted the computer several times and also tryed different programs like kaspersky, super anti virus remove, registry cleaner, and trojan removed. Still no luck. All it really did was cut down on popups and the alert doesn’t pop up as much, but it still does. I want to get rid of for good! Please help me!

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I bought a laptop around four months ago and over the past week it has had 100% CPU usage, does anyone know how i can fix this?

Ive done virus scans and used CCleaner but none of this is working and its starting to really annoy me!!

If anyone can help then thanks!
Ron T - i did what you said with the malwarebytes thing and it said have 2 infected files - Adware.BHO and Adware.Videoegg ?? i have no idea what these are or if i need them or anything so what do i do now?

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it is getting so bad that i can’t even watch videos on itunes b/c it doesn’t run smoothly. i have defragged, used the disk cleaner, deleted the files that i don’t use, checked for viruses & spyware & adware, uninstalled the old games & mp3s & documents that i don’t use. what else can i do? it is about 4 years old & i don’t expect it to be like a brand new computer but this is just ridiculous.

btw i don’t have the $ to buy any programs or anything to do it so don’t recommend that.
its a gateway

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I have Yahoo virus and adware protection but for some reason everytime I delete these viruses they come right back and it is slowing down my computer, and I do not know if yahoo has an update for these viruses and adware.

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I juz bought a toshiba laptop 1 month ago. Everything was running smoothly but until yesterday, my booting speed suddenly decreased. It takes bout 2 minute to enter the desktop. I’ve been facing that problem since my first pc until this 4th pc. There are no virus, spyware, malware, adware.. I edy remove some startup program in msconfig, run defrag and yet tat still cant slove my problem. My laptop has intel core 2 duo 1.6ghz and 2gb ram with vista home premium. Can i noe why every of my pc’s booting speed always become slower after using it for a period.

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I am not that computer savvy. I need a laptop so that I can keep working while traveling. How much do I need to spend for a good one which will serve for two years or so? Also can I use free software such as adware, to block viruses and such? It seems a waste to take what the store pushes, as far as anti-virus and spy-ware. When I bought my desktop at Best Buy it seemed I spent a lot extra for that stuff. Any recommendations on which laptop to buy, how much to spend, and how to outfit it with software to be up and running, without spening a lot of unnecessary money.. would be greatly appreciated. Again, I will need to be live with financial markets(such as stocks) and be able to download and view videos of ten minutes in length. I need something very reliable and to keep it very safe and free of virus or anything which would interfere with my financial trading. Thanks a lot.

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A couple of months ago, my younger brother visited and used my laptop while he was here. Since then, I’ve unnsuccessfully tried to take all of the adware and spyware off of my computer. It worked for a while, but now this is just getting ridiculous. I downloaded Windows Live Care antivirus software on my desktop, and it cleaned all of the virus’s off. I want to get it on my laptop, but I don’t have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. I’ve got my computer set so that it automatically updates everything, but still no service pack. I went to the windows update site using IE, but it comes up with an error message. Here’s the exact message, maybe you can decipher it:
[Error number: 0x80248015] "The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem."

I also cannot search Google or get onto certain sites or click on certain links while using Firefox. These work in IE, but then I get bombarded with pop-ups.
I need to be able to get updates on this laptop, and I need to find a way to get Windows XP Service Pack 2 so that I can get the Windows Live antivirus, etc.
This is the computer I need to use for school, and I’d really like to be able to use it again.

I’m usually pretty good with computers, but I’m at a loss with this one. I can’t spend any money or buy a new computer.
Help? =(

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Compatible with kaspersky, or do they have a newer version that helps these spyware,adware or any other malicious things?

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My husband opened the wrong thing on my computer and several adware and spyware programs were uploaded. The company that apparently uploaded them, has a service for a fee of course to eradicate them. My question is, should I purchase their service to remove them and then use avgfree or another program to remove brave shield?
I am 46, and not too sure what I am doing in terms of adware, spyware, viruses, etc..
Thanks!

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Has anyone been able to remove a virus or sypware/adware that changes the internet explorer home page to google?

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I got a computer from a friend and I keep getting pop-ups telling me I have an ADWARE.MYWEBSEARCH.1222 trojan virus that they can’t remove.
Any tips on how to remove it?

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My computer is infected with adware and malware, and I can’t afford to buy an antivirus program right now (though I will when I can). I need a free program but so far I’ve only found programs that offer a free scan and then want you to buy it before they’ll remove anything. Well, I tried SPYBOT, but it only removed some of the problems, and my computer is still infected.

Is there any other program that I can try?

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I am a Chinese and my computer is running on Windows XP Simplified Chinese version. The virus surely recognizes Chinese words for "anti-virus software" bacause every time I type in such words in Google, the whole page shuts down. And I can’t run the anti-virus software so that I can’t kill the virus. I suspect that it is an adware, because certain webpages just pop up suddenly from time to time. Can anyone tell me what I should do now?

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My brother is always downloading things, so I’d say our computer is pretty at risk for viruses and spyware and such.
Anyone know a really good program that is good at detecting Viruses, spyware, adware, and whatever else is harmful?
We have a virus program but it usually doesn’t detect anything but I’m pretty sure there’s something there.

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