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Originally Posted by McSARS DOUBLE SARS  I use SpybotS&D and Adaware as well as AVG Antivirus and any extra little programs I can get my hands on.
If you don't have one yet, I'd recommend a firewall. If you have a downloader trojan on your comp, it will help you to stop it from communicating with the server that handles all the info it sends out about your comp. |
Eh, Norton firewall shut down on me a while back. I put back windows firewall but I'm guessing that doesn't help any, huh?
And yeah I found one spyware program and disabled it in MsConfig, but I still think the file is probably on the computer if the spyware removers didn't pick it up earlier.
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| Can you tell us how you think you got it? That might help figure out what it is. So will the popups, for that matter. If they are consistently for some fake spyware program or something, you can search the name of that fake program on google and look for ways of getting rid of it and related spyware. |
Hmm, interesting. I never thought of googling any of the pop-ups.
As far as the source... X.X it was definitely from emulation. Lol I didn't bother posting the reason cause I know there's a lot of anti-emulation people out there (but I figure if you own the game it's legal right?). Anyway, emulation sites no doubt.
Otherwise I never have spyware problems myself. What's the most damage spyware can do to your computer? Can it wreck other components besides your hard drive?
Edit: As for reformatting.. I used System Restore in the past which is pretty decent, but I don't have any previous points to go back to aside from after I dled the spyware(again, my fault).
I never literally reformatted a drive, but I may have to consider it as a last resort. I really need to download AVG, everyone says it's good. Sides, there's not much risk factor involved seeing as I'm already infected, heh. Maybe that'll help things a bit.