hi Hope you guy's can help.I have somehow recently been infected somehow by adware,i have firewall and spybot etc.. all the nessercery stuff to prevent this but i assume one of the kids accepted an invitation to download something(off coke music i assume),anyway i have run spybot and got rid of the adware but it constantly re-installs itself every time i clear it.It is ruining every session on my pc now,all i keep getting is firewall pop ups asking to connect to a dns server(not sure what thats is). is there any way i can get rid of these or have they beat me? do i have to reinstall windows? PLEASE HELP! many thanks
take a look in your msconfig to see what is not supposed to be there. are you doing your updates & immunized your system in spybot? ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ cwshredder http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html Ad-Aware se http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html Spybot s&d http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html download, update & run in safemode in this order do an online virus & spyware scan with this link http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/en/start_corp.asp
I had some trojans that would replicate themselves in the "System Restore" file. It took DAYS to find them and delete all of them. Just a thought.
sorry guys i forgot to tell you the most important thing that has gone wrong.that is after a session on "winxp pro" i had to shut down using the on/off button rather than proper shutdown because firewall had frozen i think and on reboot i now get my desktop background and an expanded my documents folder,it appears that the desktop has been locked and should i close the "my docu" folder there is nothing there at all,no toolbars and no icons or links and the system is useless. I have too much on the HD to lose so do you know anyway around that? many thanks for the replies
