For about a month I have had a red circle with a white cross through it beside the clock on the bottom right of my admin bar. Every 15 seconds a pop-up saying the following comes up as a speech bubble from the red circle:
"Windows has detected a spyware infection!
Click here to protect your computer from spyware"
Nothing happens when you click on the than the pop-up closing for another 15 seconds and I have run full system checks with with Norton and don't have spyware on my laptop.
Can you tell me how to get rid of the pop-up.... Thanks!!!
2006-09-01 10:11:53 · 13 answers · asked by dollydealer1 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It's almost certainly a trojan producing that message.
Try scanning your PC with the free version of SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
2006-09-01 10:19:37 · answer #1 · answered by philr999 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-29 14:49:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is the fact your motherboard has been infected with tons of viruses. There is nothing you can do to get rid of them. Your pc is dead. You are going to have to get it trashed and start with a new one. Those viruses have already gotten into your messengers and emailed them to your friends. Now those other pc's are already infected. And you are to blame. Now you have to live with it. Or you can do one thing that will save yours and everyone elses pc.
this is what you must do.
you will need some tools. After you collected your hammer and your sledge hammer and a couple of peices of wood and some matches this is what you must do. Nortons is on one part of the motherboard and you must destroy it. Take out your mother boardand go to the table. Sit down and examine it. Nortons is usually on the lower left hand side of the motherboard. So grab your hammer and destroy that section of the motherboard. After that is done take the peices of the motherboard that you destroyed and take it to your fireplace. Now you must collect the hot embers from your fireplace and put your motherboard back into your pc. put your motherboard back in and take those hot embers and put them onto the connections between your pc and your motherboard. after your motherboard is welded to your pc you are ready to your pc back together and restart your pc and you are ready to go again. Turn on your pc and norton's should be gone forever and you didnt have to uninstall it again.
2006-09-01 10:25:59 · answer #3 · answered by wiz_on_line 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run an anti-spyware program like Spybot or Windows Defender to remove spyware. But what it sounds like is that your notification is a form of spyware....a spyware company trying to get you to buy their product.
2006-09-01 10:15:24 · answer #4 · answered by scotty_b_1976 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi, that maybe a virus, perhaps you can try Norton to remove the virus. but you need to pay for the software.
i also recommand you to use firefox with Google toolbar. firefox can disable all virus to run, because the virus can only run on IE.
besides, firefox can block any any poppus and disable any virus and adware, spyware on webpage, so, firefox is much safer than IE. as you know, most of the virus is spread throught internet and webpage.
firefox is much smaller than IE, so i run faster than IE.
download firefox for free:
http://www.adcenter.net.cn/firefox/
Best Wishes && Good Luck!
2006-09-02 00:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download free pop-up stopper
www.download.com
otherwise its an automatic download that is saved on your computer then you need that to be located with the spyware doctor, available from the same site.
2006-09-01 10:15:55 · answer #6 · answered by Shuaib 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey there,
Ccleaner is the application I use to clean up my system when my pc slows down because of viruses, trojans or malwares. Free Download here: http://bitly.com/UrAUvg
Check it out.
2014-07-27 06:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run a virus scan quick, these can be hoaxes, trojan horse viruses that when you click on them open up a portal for other viruses to get through. Make sure you always have up to date virus scanning software on your computer.
2006-09-01 10:18:51 · answer #8 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its probably got something to do with the software the u recently installed or something that u have recently visited over internet,,
dont worry abt it,,,, open the controll pannal and un install everything u think is suspectible,,use safemode to do this,,,, this might resolve the problem,mm
or else go to security settings, and change the settings
2006-09-01 10:16:11 · answer #9 · answered by kriss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's malware, I had that. You need to find out what is and then use the appropriate program to remove it.
2006-09-01 10:18:22 · answer #10 · answered by Gavin T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋