oh crap oh crap oh crap! I just got this little thing that poped up and said "system has detected a virus" but our virus protection ended yesterday! I went to google to get look for a free virus scan download, but everytime I try to search, internet explorer closes. My parents are going to KILL me, I have got to find it fast. does anyone know where I can get a free virus scan?
You may have just gotten a stupid ad through windows messaging. There's a way to turn that off, but I don't remember just now. How was the top of the window that said that labeled?
You may have just gotten a stupid ad through windows messaging. There's a way to turn that off, but I don't remember just now. How was the top of the window that said that labeled?
This is for reference (PricessBeth don't do this one)
Control Panel > Add Remove Programs > Windows Components > (Uncheck Windows Messenger)
also I highly recommend visiting this web site and signing up, its free and they will help you rid your PC of all the junk
READ THE DIRECTIONS / INSTRUCTIONS in RED before yo pot anything, they are great guys and will help you, but you need to do a few things to your PC first
It is not completly fixed, but I had to let my brother work on it and I went to bed. We have differant user acounts on our computer, so we got on his user acount and ran a cleaner (it would not let me run a cleaner on my user acount, this is a smart virus). it said that it fixed the problem but my user acount is still acting wierd, so I don't think we caught it yet. It is looking like we are going to have to wipe the hard drive.
AVG anti-virus is excellent! Plus since its still free, and they want more to use it they seem to update the virus definitions faster than the paid anti-virus programs! //free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
You might want to also think about getting yourself a firewall to help prevent future issues. If you need a free one ZoneAlarm is pretty good and easy to use.
You may have just gotten a stupid ad through windows messaging. There's a way to turn that off, but I don't remember just now. How was the top of the window that said that labeled?
...if it was that kind of pop-up, you have not been running windows updates routinly, microsoft fixed that a while ago
It is looking like we are going to have to wipe the hard drive.
Before you go to that drastic a measure, you might try deleting your profile & creating a new one. Sometimes, profile info gets messed up & things start acting funny. Try this if you don't find any viruses, or even if you do find & clean a virus, but things still don't work right under your profile.
