I'm not very computer literate! I lent my laptop to my 14 year old cousin, and apparently he was looking up porn on it. (Boys!) Anyway, when he returned it, I kept getting these alerts saying that my system was at risk due to spyware... But when I clicked on it for info all it did was take me to a website for "SpyDawn". It just didn't seem legit... so I went offline, ran a full system scan with Norton, and everything turned up clean. I then went into the control panel and deleted two programs that had been installed while my cousin had the computer. One of these was a "System Alert Popup" that was very difficult to get rid of - the computer crashed every time I tried to remove it. Once I succeeded, the SpyDawn popup stopped showing. I thought I was done, but just two minutes ago, another random alert popped up on my computer (something about a Trojan), and when I clicked on it, it took me to another iffy website - "Pestcapture". What do I do?
2007-02-13
19:33:52
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8 answers
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Susie Q
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