PC help...
 

Okay so earlier today at home i was surfing the net and i got one of those pop ups that said...click here to claim your prize..blah blah blah...anyways i accidently clicked on it and it opened up like 6 pages..i closed them as fast as i could but now i have some gay ass tool bar on my IE....how the hell do i get rid of it? I tried yahoo anti-spy thing..but it doesn't find it...i went into add/remove programs..and it doesn't seem to be there...what can i do to remove it?


Miguel

go to download.com and download spybot...

What will this spybot do? Will it remove this crap? Even when i go to any of my document folders..that toolbar is there..:mad:

yeah it will remove any spyware. it's not hard to use. contact me on aim if you have any questions. if you want i can show you a couple other things to clean up.

I don't have aol...

i dont either, but i use aim. i cant remember my yahoo or any others. im only gonna be here for another hour then ill be gone for the weekend.

Damn..well i'm not gonna be home until 7 or 8 Pm.:(...thanks for the help though..

Common just admit it, I bet you really thought you won a million dollars and you clicked it. ::p

No..i was gonna close it but i clicked inside the box..:( ...i haven't had time to run that spybot but my little bro says the computer freezes sometimes and is real slow....i might have to reformat it again...which will erase all my stuff...

Just be careful about which spyware delete you get. Some of them really cluster **** your computer to submission. Happened to my lab top, had to delete the hard drive which is a bitch. Click and drag the toolbar up till you cannot see it, second best thing.

formatting is a quick solution to your problem, but you could get the spyware off without doing that. spybot is a good program, but I would also use ad-aware (www.lavasoft.com), microsoft antispyware (www.microsoft.com), trendmicro antispyware, cwshredder, kazaabegone, and go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com and do the online scan. you could also get a program called hijackthis.. it's kinda hard to use if you dunno what you're doing but it shows stuff that's attached to your internet explorer (should remove that toolbar if nothing else will). but it will show a lot of stuff that you don't want to remove. btw to all the scans with the programs in safe mode (microsoft antispyware may not work in safe mode, just scan in normal mode)

www.mozilla.com
download fire fox...

It is 100X more secure than microsoft IE...

and microsoft antispy ware is ALOT better than lavasoft...

DO NOT BUY LAVASOFT ADDAWARE... the free version is better than the professional...
if yer gonna buy an anti spyware go microsoft...

if you dont want to pay... get the free lavasoft addaware....

all the software I listed is free or has a trial version you can download. The only software I have bought would be Spysweeper, their free trial no longer lets you remove spyware though so I didn't list it. It does a good job of keeping stuff off your system though.. but nothing is 100% gonna keep you clean

Get firefox then get some extensions like smooth wheel at the mozilla.com web sight so you can scroll "smoothly" I promis you will not have another pop up again once you use firefox.

dont make promises like that...

i get about 1 pop-up every few weeks...

Well its 100x better than IE so you should still get it..

Hey Roxio.. I see your avatar, you a network admin?

yes it is...

Not an admin yet but working on it. Ill be geting a MCSA soon and then almost done with associates degree in computer science.

you got any other certs or going for any others?

Well I know how to help you, but I'm not going to until you take Vince Young off your sig! ha ha ha.....just kidding man.