so i barley have been on my computer all spring break and yesterday i decide to play Americas Army and all of a sudden these spyware poppup shit starts popping up. so i guess my dumb ass brother has been on and causing chaos on my computer. so today i am abou to run avast antivirus and dont know if that will do anything. do you guys know of any programs or anything?
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Ad-Aware?
Yeah, ad-aware is generally considered the "best". The other de facto standard is Spybot Search & Destroy.
Windows Defender is teh best!!!1
Honestly, run the scan in safe mode, as I've had better experience running from there than I have in normal Windows. Maybe Skywing can put his Windows-savvy two-cents in on the subject!
My recommendation is to avoid getting your box compromised in the first place. This necessitates, at the very least, not giving admin accounts or your accounts out to other people.
It is in general very difficult (at best) to be completely certain that a system that was once compromised fully has been cleaned completely.
Barring avoiding getting yourself into such a situation in the first place, I'd be inclined towards blowing away and rebuilding a system that had been compromised. I tend to take a dim view of most "personal security" type software, however (perhaps being jaded by the fact that they tend to introduce security holes, and the futility of signature-based detection schemes in general against anything that isn't just "mass-market" malware).
this keeps popping up... and i have already ran ad-ware
and whenever i try to do ctrl-alt-delt it says administor has disabled task manager help?!?!
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Quote from: BigAznDaddy on March 28, 2008, 12:53:00 PM
this keeps popping up... and i have already ran ad-ware
and whenever i try to do ctrl-alt-delt it says administor has disabled task manager help?!?!
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g143/Hagen_ho/asdf.jpg)
I'd recommend doing a system wipe, but if you really don't want to do that, I'd go to System Internals (Which I think is owned by Microsoft now?) and download Process Explorer. It's a better version of Task Manager.
(link here -> http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip)