[Archived] Adware

[Paul]

God knows where you go on the web Abbs. Haven't see any adware, viruses or Trojans on any of our kit at home or work for years. That's two PCs, four laptops and two tablets, also got three iPhones.

Running Microsoft Works on the laptops and PCs and AVG on the Android tablets. We never get a sniff of a problem. MSW seems to catch everything and let's face it Microsoft daren't issue rubbish virus protection software. I have colleagues at work on a seperate system which I'm not responsible for. They never bother to update or have real time protection etc. and often run into trouble.

My guess is you have two problems; first you're not set up properly and need to run real time protection plus regular updates. Secondly, and I'm not criticising, most of this cr@p comes from dodgy websites; only time I've had a problem in last five years was when I went searching for a site that promised old Google software for free which Google had withdrawn. Did the download and immediately picked up a browser hijacker and some malware. Just proves if you try something dodgy you open yourself up to attack.

Any site that isn't kosher is just asking for trouble.

[ABBEY]

The surfing life of abbey lol

Reading on it , it appears I clicked on something without thinking. My heads up my arse these past few weeks .

[Paul]

Couldn't comment on that........

[cn174]

See if this helps Abbey. http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-outfox-tv.html

Whilst you are going through your Program's, just have a look through and see if there's any other little programs that you don't recognise. Delete them too.

[ABBEY]

I used that cheers .. And you tube and delved in places I never new existed on a lap top ha.. Fingers crossed .

[ABBEY]

some things dont change

Keep getting pop up saying 16 bit error and a message about 32 bit...tried the usual stuff to no avail...help please

[Al]

Have you thought of chucking it away and buying a new laptop Abs?

[ABBEY]

ha..it would still be the same

[ABBEY]

ANY ONE PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASEEEEEEEEE

[K-Hod]

Stop looking at porn Abbey!!

[ABBEY]

you all have low opionion of me ha

[ABBEY]

ended up getting Spy hunter 4.

It cleared 575 acts of nasty up

whoops

[DE.]

Be careful where you surf and what you click Abbs. This stuff can be deleted but you don't know what it looks at/takes while it's on your system.

[ABBEY]

I know but....