"Your computer is in danger"...do you know how to stop it?

Question

How do I get rid of this problem?
There is a red button with an x on it next to the time on my pc...it pops up with a message "your computer is in danger...windows has detected spyware/adware infection!"....there's nothing wrong with my pc,yet it keeps telling me "Click here to install the latest protection tools".When I click on it the pop-up goes away briefly,but never opens another window to the installation instructions.
My computer runs just fine except for that annoying pop-up that comes & goes every other minute.

Answer 1

Your PC is infected with spyware.Here is a list of free scans that may remove it.
I like ewido the best.
Spybots search and Destroy http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10122137.html?tag=pao
adaware se> http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1
http://www.webroot.com/land/freescan.php
a-squared Free> http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
X -Cleaner Micro Edition scan http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spywareguard too.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
Get free anti virus for free click here.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
http://avast.com

Answer 2

There is something wrong with your computer, it is infested with malware that is advertising rouge antispyware programs. You need to scan and remove the infestation. There are quite a few free anti-spyware programs available! I suggest that users should use at least 3 different products to regularly scan their systems. Most of these products are free for non-commercial use versions that have disabled some features, usually the active resident protection.

Spybot Search and Destroy is an excellent program for scanning for and removing spyware. The resident modules can be a bit buggy, but the extra included tools such as startup manger are great! http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Adaware is another good scanner and removal tool but it has no resident abilities at all in the free version. http://free.lavasoft.com

Ewido is fairly new as a free spyware scanner, but it comes from the people who brought us AVG, so I expect good things: http://free.grisoft.com

Microsoft has their free scanner avalable for download although many advise that this tool is a bit permissive of questionable programs and add ons! Defender does offer a couple of options the others do not have such as scheduled scan and a resident process for active protection. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

A new player is on the scene with SUPERAntiSpware. I was fairly impressed with the deep scans performed by this product, and it found some inactive files with spyware embedded,that the others had missed. I will add this to the list of tools in the arsenal and see how it really performs on active spyware. If you want to try it you can download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Once you have your system cleaned up of all the spyware, then you should protect yourself against new infestations. Spyware Blaster does a very good job and does not use up any system resourses in doing so. Works with both IE and Firefox browsers: This Download can be found at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Another good way to avoid spyware is to use the Firefox browser. While not immune from spyware infestation, you will certainly not have as many problems as when you run I.E. Easy Download at http://www.mozilla.com

Answer 3

Ummm...you've been visiting naughty sights haven't you? Those pop-ups are designed to get your business in order to erase and clean your machine of porn sites.

Erase all cookies, history and temporary internet files. Then run a free program called Spybot Search and Destroy and unpdate, then run it. You have a spyware.

Then stay away from the nudie sites.

Answer 4

You have adware on your system you can download Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy to try to get rid of it.

Answer 5

Had the same problem. Probably there are some viruses on your PC.... Ask someone for help. Or - try to do sth with your desktop in menu..

Answer 6

Run a scan with Ewido. http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

Answer 7

Sound like you might have a virus, hope you have virus protection?

Answer 8

i think u got adware or something.

Answer 9

Ignore it. It's a scam.