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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:28 PM
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Please help plcdude with a computer problem
He's lost his donor star, so I offered to post here for him. He says: "I have had a problem with pop up advertising viruses on my computer and IE has a new tools line and I can't get rid of that either. I suspect I have acquired some malware like spybot@mxt. Anyone know how I can clean that off my machine?"

Any constructive suggestions?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:51 PM
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1. Download Spybot Search and Destroy
install and run it
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:13 PM
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3. Thanks on plcdude's behalf. S S&D is still free, right? n/t
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PennDem Donating Member (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:03 PM
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2. Spybot is a good program...
As is Ad-Aware. http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Though I've personally had better results than either of those with Superantispyware.

I'd start by turning off system restore first.

Then download, install and run CCleaner to clean out all cached temp files. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Next download, install, update and run superantispyware.
http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:14 PM
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4. Thanks on his behalf, and welcome to DU!
Same question: all these programs are free, correct?
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PennDem Donating Member (146 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 08:26 AM
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6. Yes, they are all free downloads.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:35 PM
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5. Here, free downloads, software I use
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

http://www.tucows.com/preview/414285

http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

They work well
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