I took my laptop into Best Buy today b/c I'm not able to get into websites and they told me that spyware....

Question

was installed on my computer and that I wouldn't be able to just go and uninstall it myself which I don't believe but it is blocking me from going into yahoo and other websites does anyone know how I can take this off my computer and it be back to normal thank you in advance

Answer 1

Do a www.google.com search for AVG Free Edition.
It will be in the first few results. Download AVG and Ewido
Anti-Spyware, there both free.

I gurantee it will take care of any of your problems.

Another good free program is EasyCleaner by ToniArts.

Answer 2

All of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.

I-Worm/Stration · BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC · Worm/Generic.FX · Exploit.WMF
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.
http://www.safer-networking.org/

http://superantispyware.com/
SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!
Easily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!
Make sure after you download any of these, that you update them.

Answer 3

You can use one or more of the anti spywares, the best among them are microsoft's windows defender, ad aware se personal from lavasoft, avg free anti spyware, spybot s&d.
http://yanswers.blogspot.com/2006/10/essential-free-internet-security.html
If you can download+install+run any or some of these it may help to remove the spyware. For best result you should boot your computer in safe mode and then run these programs.
http://yanswers.blogspot.com/2006/10/boot-in-safe-mode-in-windows-xp-laptop.html

Answer 4

nicely, it relies upon on what you want to apply the computer for. besides the undeniable fact that, one ingredient I continually propose even as getting a computer is... The slowest area of any computer is the problematical force. that is a mechanical gadget, for this reason won't be able to be as quickly because the digital instruments (memory, CPU, motherboard). hence any performance you may upload to the problematical force will make your total computer experience swifter. maximum laptops comprise a 5400rpm problematical force. i might want to (and alway do) personalize the computer and replace the 5400rpm force with the recent 7200rpm force. enormous performance income with little or no value. also, confirm that you've a minimum of 2Gig Bytes of RAM (memory). this will also improve performance.

Answer 5

Download Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
Install it, check for updates and run the program, it will get rid of the spyware on your machine.

Spybot S & D is a very easy program to use and it's free.

Answer 6

scan pc in safemode use this to do it with & that spyware will go
ewido antispyware
spybot
antispyware blocker
xoftspy
ad-aware(se )
then you go to safemode on ur pc. restart pc. as pc is starting up. keep hitting on (F8) key you come to a menu . go to safemode . hit on enter then enter again. pc will go to login screen . go to ur user name hit on that
then run .da scan to find that spyware& malware
when found . delete da .spyware. then restart pc

Answer 7

u need to run an anti-spyware program
hijackthis.com