Budgie
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Whats best way of getting rid of spyware?
Got McAfee on my works laptop said its quarantined said spyware.
But on start up i have a windows popup saying I should do a full system scan as its threat level 5.
Was going to download avg but work had a lil go at me coz it interferes with McAfee 
Any Ideas?
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Budgie
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just seen related threads underneath, gonna give those ago.
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Daveskater
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McAffee is rubbish mate, if work are making you keep it then that's a bit gay. You would need to uninstall McAffee before putting another anti-virus on anyway because you can't have two. Anyway, AVG is for homos  Avast ftw.
Try using SUPERantispyware, Spybot and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and see if it gets rid of it. You can have as many anti-spyware programs as you like.
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Half Pint
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Microsoft have a spyware removal tool, use thst first!
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Budgie
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ive downloaded it from the microsoft webbie.
But everytime the funking thing does a scan it freezes and kills my laptop
gonna have another go when i get home.
Edit:
Thanks for the suggestions mr skater.
So i can only have those spyware tools if i get rid of mcafee?
dont think that'll go down well with the it boys.
whats wrong with avg. i used it on my old work laptop and never had a problem
[Edited on 04-01-2010 by Budgie]
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C2RL R
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you don't need to remove your anti-virus software to use anti-spyware tools. i'd reccomend malwarebytes too as i had to use it myself a few weeks back and it did the job.
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Budgie
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is malware diff to spyware? i should rele read up on these things lol 
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Budgie
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just used that malwarebytes
had about 13 infected items 
and think its done the trick
ive now got my wallpaper back
Thanks for the suggestion
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Daveskater
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No probs mate, glad to hear that it's going well
You can keep McAffee and use as many anti-spyware programs as you like, however you cannot use more than one anti-virus program at a time because they will conflict with each other.
AVG was fine back in the days up to v7.5, but ever since 8 was released it's been an awful program and something to avoid. I could go on but I'm trying to keep this short 
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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