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Every once in a while I will get something from an mp3, or activex, and I'll get popups.. Well I have always used hijackthis to remove the bad things and never had a problem.
Well I caught something really bad on my computer from a free tv streamer program I shouldn't have downloaded. The thing multiplied and I had 58 bad things on my computer. Needless to say hijackthis didn't help my issue. I tried adaware, spybot, mcafee, and nothing would clean it out..
Then I stumbled unto this:
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html#userreview
Malwarebytes is free to use, but they have a different version that does protection.. Anyways, ran the program and presto, every single thing is gone. It couldn't get one of the bad things, so it automatically rebooted 4 times and each time failed, and on the 5th it snagged it. Perfectly clean!
Thought I would share
Well I caught something really bad on my computer from a free tv streamer program I shouldn't have downloaded. The thing multiplied and I had 58 bad things on my computer. Needless to say hijackthis didn't help my issue. I tried adaware, spybot, mcafee, and nothing would clean it out..
Then I stumbled unto this:
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html#userreview
Malwarebytes is free to use, but they have a different version that does protection.. Anyways, ran the program and presto, every single thing is gone. It couldn't get one of the bad things, so it automatically rebooted 4 times and each time failed, and on the 5th it snagged it. Perfectly clean!
Thought I would share