Tav Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 A friend of mine has some major virus related problems...any recommendations of free things to help out. He can't use explorer or start menu and gets porn everytime he opens IE. Perhaps reinstalling windows and a format would be best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimsKragma Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 if he can't use explorer, then yeah, format and reinstall windows. he should download Spybot Antivirus and ZoneAlarm after though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Who's got the problem Tav? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...mole... Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 plus tell him to use mozilla firefox its way better than IE has inbuilt popup blocker and isnt affected by spyware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 A friend of mine has some major virus related problems...any recommendations of free things to help out. He can't use explorer or start menu and gets porn everytime he opens IE. Perhaps reinstalling windows and a format would be best?ZoneAlarm is shit. Fair enough it can block most ad-ware, but it tends to get annoying if it keeps asking if an application is allowed to access the internet every 2 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzdiablo Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 gets porn everytime he opens IEwait, this is a bad thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imprinted Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 ZoneAlarm is shit. Fair enough it can block most ad-ware' date=' but it tends to get annoying if it keeps asking if an application is allowed to access the internet every 2 minutes[/quote']there's a wonderful thing attached to it so that you can go "remember this setting" and guess what? It does! incidentally - mole is right - ditch IE and go for firefox! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 everytime i open up my 'notepad' program i get re-directed to a website that doesnt load up...then an icon appears on my desktop saying 'big savings' or something...and also my 'notepad' icon has changed to a yellow cross......anybody know what's up there? and how to fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 there's a wonderful thing attached to it so that you can go "remember this setting" and guess what? It does! incidentally - mole is right - ditch IE and go for firefox! I'm not a tit, and i configured that as soon as i installed it. There is always the message "do you want (then a number resembling an IP) to access the internet?", and the number is different each timeIt is irritating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imprinted Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 unlucky for you mate. it's never given me that problem and i've been using it on both my old comp and this one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onlynik Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I'm not a tit' date=' and i configured that as soon as i installed it. There is always the message "do you want (then a number resembling an IP) to access the internet?", and the number is different each timeIt is irritating[/quote']Sounds like you've got a problem and you are letting it out. If I don't know whats going out I block it, never had any real problems once I configured it properlyFree Anti Virus http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/Free Anti Virus online http://housecall.trendmicro.com/Free good firewall http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1012_zl/zlsSetup_51_033_000.exeSpy bot download http://www.security-related.com/download2.htmAdawarehttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hexagram56 Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 firstly i think your so called freinds is you. i think your computer is infected with spyware,download these programshijack thisad-awarespyware-search and destroyrun them and remove all infected files, but watch out what you delete when your using hijack this.this infection of spyware was probable caused by looking at to much porn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Sounds like you've got a problem and you are letting it out. If I don't know whats going out I block it' date=' never had any real problems once I configured it properlyFree Anti Virus [url']http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/Free Anti Virus online http://housecall.trendmicro.com/Free good firewall http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1012_zl/zlsSetup_51_033_000.exeSpyware download http://www.security-related.com/download2.htmI have Norton Corporate Edition, so that anti-virus should be enough. I only get spyware when i use IE. However, I may check out the spyware link. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onlynik Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I have Norton Corporate Edition' date=' so that anti-virus should be enough. I only get spyware when i use IE. However, I may check out the spyware link. Cheers[/quote']The only thing about NAVCE (Norton Anti Virus Corporate Edition) is that if you are not part of an AV group then you'll have to run live uodate on a regular basis to get the latest definitions, you can also downlaod the intelligent update from herehttp://definitions.symantec.com/defs/20041017-008-i32.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 The only thing about NAVCE (Norton Anti Virus Corporate Edition) is that if you are not part of an AV group then you'll have to run live uodate on a regular basis to get the latest definitions' date=' you can also downlaod the intelligent update from here[url']http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/20041017-008-i32.exeThat is not a problem. It only takes about a minute weekly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tav Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 firstly i think your so called freinds is you. bah no! My PC is running in tip top shape though could do with a good de-frag. I run AdWare which seems to do the trick. Admitedly I am still running IE and XP built in firewall but it does... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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