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I've been having all kinds of problems with spyware and ----. The only thing that helps for a little while is reinstalling windows. I dunno, my computer is acting hella fucked up right now. When I press crt, alt, del I can't end programs or processes. Pop ups keep coming on my screen when I'm not even using a browser. I've ran spybot at startup, before anything gets loaded into memory a few times, I have mcafee firewall and antivirus. I have comcast, which I'm really starting to question, esp. how your IP address never changes????

What are your guys security settings? Also a theory, is that it's programs I download, like aim, limewire, etc. just visit free pornsite. That in order to not get any spyware is to not do ---- on your computer, but check emails and visit websites that don't have popups.

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format

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I don't get any spyware. I just use norton anti virus and zonealarm, which I don't even really need.

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When I reinstall windows, it's pretty much the same thing as formating, I've never formated it completely. I need to get a USB to backup my stuff so I could just format every month or so for my security. I'm thinking about a different ISP though.

What the hell is zonealarm? No spyware, What ISP are you using? Do you use messengers or download music, etc. ?

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I don't have any anti-virus/anti-spyware, I use limewire every once in a while. I never have any problems. I have windows firewall, and am running through a router. I guess it helps that I clean stupid peoples computers of spyware and ---- for a living. O0

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I use limewire a bit. my brother uses that ---- all the time though. What do you mean you use a router? What do you use to clean spyware?

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I don't GET spyware. Don't download ---- you don't recognize. Don't click "yes" to everything. Read what they're saying to you. Check www.sysinternals.com, look for "Autoruns", and "Process Explorer". You can guess on what they do. Autoruns shows you programs that start up when you turn on the computer, you can control what they do. (As in, you can tell certain programs to NOT run).

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I don't go stupid places or download stupid things.

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I don't click on stupid ---- or anything like that. When I do download stuff I pay attention to what there saying and don't let them download brower toolbar and whatever. I only download programs like real player, adobe, spybot, etc. It's my dumbass brother that downloads stuid ---- like aim even though I tell not to.



I dunno, What ISP's are you guys using? Also what if anything are you guys using to backup files? those flash drives only go up to 2GB as far as I know which isn't that much.

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the problem is that your doing something wrong and not knowing it. use a sfae and secure broswer, like firefox. seccond, create two accounts. one for you and one for your bro.if he wants aim, get him gaim. spywre is easy to get rid of. usually they give you hints that allow you to get rid of them like... if it comes up with a cerytain toolbar all the time, go to google and type in "name of the toolbar "+ removal. should come up qith solutions.


see i used to have problems with this ----. then i switched to linux. i mean honnestly guys, if its pissing you off that much, just try it for once. its fucken free. and it does everything i need it to like in windows. plays music, plays videos, chat on aim, burn cd's. limewire, emule, whatever you want. if your an avid gamer though, look elseware. or just use a machine dedicated for gaming.

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the main problem with shti like this is you have to download ---- tons of software to fix one simple piece of programming that could have eaisally been deleted by doing a little detective work. usually downloading software to catchspyware or anything antispyware related isnt a good idea because it clutters your system.

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dam. WTF. I have owned 2 computers and NEVER had any issues with spyware. I use mcafee on both, and I dont even think they are configured properly. I also run firefox. dont know if that helps, but yeah. WTF

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Apparently Kain has fat fingers

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i just found out about this software a week or so ago..

i was using EVERYTHING ELSE to delete this ------- virus and it kept coming back.. i manually deleted it atleast 40 times over the month i had it.. used kill box to auto delete it... to swap it with a dummy file.. used every single ------- antispyware/antivirus out there.. even ------- disabled windows explorer and got me a windows explorer alternative.. and it fixed the problem for a while then it found a way to launch explorer again >:(

bottom line is i found that software and ran it..

it cleared up more than 3 gigs of hd space! and i havent had a single fuckng pop up since then :)

i couldnt reformat because i got way too much ---- to back up :)

im going to be trying linux again soon.. since i only use my pc to browse the interweb and listen to music.

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thanks for the replys. I'm using IE right now, I had firefox, but I thought that it contributed to spyware as it occured a little while after installing it. Which is not the case since I still get it. How do you disable IE?

I was thinking about switching to apple?, early when this was pissing me off earlier. I'll def have to look into linux. I used to mess with unix awhile ago, but that's like ms-dos.

I really don't have anything on my computer that I really car about and am tottaly content w/ formatting. Isn't there anything that can backup like 10GB + I guess I could zip it too though....

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download simply mepis if you want a free and simple linux port. hell, you dont even need to install it on your fucken hard drive. butn it to cdrom and vualla! your good to go.seems to me like it was a worm rather than a virus.

i use linux allot to kill virii. also, you should download bartpe. it makes a cdbootable compact version of windows with norton and all the goodies on it, but doeasnt access the hard drive. well... it does, but it runs entirely from cd. networking, filesharing, desktop, regedit, and a couple of handy utilities. with this single cd i have fixed numerous virii, worms, and just people being stupid and downloading soo much ---- that windows wont boot cus theres less than 1 meg of free space. its worth the download. just go through the system32 and just start deleting ---- that you know isnt supposed to be there.

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IE is all I use, plop in Trend Micros PCcillin along with AVG's freeshit (yet to install the cracked stuff) and no issues in 3 years.

I reformatted this PC once, installed PCcillain and no reformats since, that sayiong alot with winXP. Some users reformat every 4-6 months just to be safe.

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so if your using windows xp and getting pop ups, just turn on the pop up blocker.

i have found avg to be very good at finding strange viruses and trojans.
also i found with limewire that it would stay running in the background all the time , unless you make it stop, which not only uses resources but also makes your pc vulnerable.