Hamish
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Registered: 4th Apr 05
Location: Ashtead, Surrey Drives: 100bhp Mint with Hole
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My computer tells me i have a spyware infetion 
Just run AVG 8 and Ad Aware 2009. (Both the free versions) and i still ahve a problem
What can i do thats free to get rid of this problem
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22B
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Registered: 9th Sep 04
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I had this also, download a program called malware bytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ , run a scan and remove found problems
then I downloaded spybot search and destroy and ran another scan, that sorted the problem for me.
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Hamish
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Location: Ashtead, Surrey Drives: 100bhp Mint with Hole
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Well ive just restarted after removing the problems it told me i had and it has stopped teling me i have an infection 
|I would presume ive fixed it
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22B
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quote:
Originally posted by Hamish
Well ive just restarted after removing the problems it told me i had and it has stopped teling me i have an infection
|I would presume ive fixed it
did you use the malware bytes software, as the first thing I tried removing the spyware from startup via msconfig but it was still causing problems.
I used malware bytes and the problem was sorted, used spybot search and destroy after just to make sure.
[Edited on 18-11-2008 by 22B]
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Bart
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HiJackthis ftw... everytime.
Download the program, upload the results, and nail the bad shit.
Go into your control panel and uninstall any crap which looks like "IE toolbar" "Shopper helper" "windows security warnings", that sort of thing.
Then go to start -> run -> msconfig
to the startup tab and untick anything which you dont recognise or need (i,e acrobat speed launcher, real updater, etc).
all of the above will make an amazing difference.
[Edited on 18-11-2008 by Bart]
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