geting rid of spyware?

Question

my pc seams to be runing slower got this horble
feeling that i have spyware or virus i have norton and did a full
scan showed up nothing, this also took about twice as long as normal i delited temp internet files and did a disk c clean up any ideas ?

Answer 1

Download Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot Search and Destroy. Those two programs are free, and they will find just about anything that's on your computer that isn't supposed to be there.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Download adware personal from www.lavasoft.com
Also go to download.com and search for spybot.
Install those 2. Run full scan with each. Should get rid of
what you got. By the way, Norton does not work against spyware and adware, its just antivirus.
One more thing, you can also go to www.grisoft.com and download the new avg 7.5 anti spyware and anti malware. Run those 2 and that should help you as well. Keep them with yo, at least 2 of the 4 mentioned and run them like every 2 weeks or something like that. Should keep your machine healthy.

Answer 4

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

AVG Removes 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.

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Answer 5

Install an anti spyware and scan the PC. I can give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers...! Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 6

Get rid of Norton and get a good antivirus and an anti-spyware. Here you have some free options:
http://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/security.htm

Answer 7

spyware is the scurge of the 21st century internet world,it infects machines and brings them to a halt,it steals your private information and installs unwanted programs on your hard drive,basically it screws up your whole p.c
but dont despair,help is avalible and most of its free,norton is ok for corporate servers and banks but for the home user there are some excellent free software products avalible,and millions of users cant be wrong
for spyware,there are 3 programs(all free) the first spybot(http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html)is the best anti-spyware program avalible,it scans and cleans all known spyware and also protects you from future attack by its imunize feature,which blocks bad pages in internet explorer
the second adaware personal(http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5)is just a scanner but works well with spybot,and is very good at cleaning adware from your computer,adware is what is responsible for them awful "pop-ups"
the last is "spyware blaster"but dont be put off by the name,this is actually a very good program,it has no scanner but actually blocks spyware from getting on to your p.c in the first place,it also works with the mozzila firefox browser which is unusual
for anti-virus avast4.7(http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html) is a good tried and tested anti-virus,it basically does what it meant to do and nothing more,it has a good detection rate and regular updates,i have used it for over ayear now and i wouldnt use anything else,its a must
another good addition to your securty is the mcafee site advisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html),this basically tells you if a website is safe to visit,it will have a green tick for safe,a yellow exclamation mark for untested and a red cross for caution spyware+viruses detected on this site,this is good as it can save you getting infected by warning you not to visit the site before its too late..a excellent product and free
finally a firewall is a must on any good home p.c and there is only one(apart from the windows firewall) that is worth using...zone alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp) is a good firewall as it warns you of anything leaving or entering your p.c and you get the option to allow or block the entry,if you allow it,you also get the option for the computer to remeber the name of the site so you wont get asked again,this is handy ,especially when you are using internet explorer every day for example
i have used all these programs on my computer and i have had pretty well zero problems with viruses and spyware,and all these programs are free,which makes it even better
i hope this information helps you
good luck

Answer 8

There's a good list of free spyware removal tools here, also has some good info on how to avoid stuff like this.http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html

Answer 9

Norton is an anti virus and it can't find or remove spyware - you need an anti spyware for that!
If it finds anything nasty then switch off System Restore and run it again in Safe Mode.

Before attempting to remove malware you must switch off System Restore as back up files will be hiding in there, and it will just restore itself. Go to Start - programs - accessories - system tools - system restore.
Run your anti virus and anti spyware in Safe Mode. To get into Safe Mode repeatedly press the F8 key after the bios screen loads but before Windows loads. You'll know if you made it because the screen will be at 800 x 600 and your pc will be slow.

Then beef up your security. Its easier to prevent malware getting on to your sytem in the first place rather than trying to remove it. All the following programs are free for personal use;

You need to install one firewall.
The Windows firewall doesn't stop malware on your pc from dialling out.
http://www.zonelabs.com Zone Alarm firewall
http://www.comodogroup.com/ - Comodo security suite.

You need to install one anti virus;
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ -AVG anti virus or
http://www.avast.com - Avast Antivirus

You need all three anti spyware programs;
http://www.ewido.net - AVG(Ewido) anti trojan.
http://www.lavasoft.com - Ad-Aware SE Personal anti adware
http://www.safer-networking.org - Spybot Search and Destroy anti spyware

And these are useful utilities;
Shields Up security site;
https://www.grc.com - check your firewall works
http://www.grc.com/optout.htm - grc anti spyware program and info.

http://www.mozilla.com/ Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail program.
http://www.opera.com/ Opera web browser
Instal both these web browsers, turn off javascript on one and use that browser for vising unknown websites. They don't support Active X so thats one less way for problems to get on your pc.

http://spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm - The Spyware Warrior site identifies fake anti spyware programs.
http://www.ccleaner.com Cr*pcleaner Registry cleaner and privacy tool
http://www.mailwasher.net/ -spam filter
Winpatrol is a handy utility that tracks cookies on your pc and stops unwanted changes to your startup folder.
http://www.winpatrol.com
Spywareblaster works with Internet Explorer and Firefox. It won't uninstall spyware that is already on your pc, but it will prevent hijacks and other malicious changes to your browser.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com -MacAffee Site Advisor warns about malware on sites you are about to visit.
http://www.sys-shield.com - AbsoluteShield File Shredder
http://heidi.ie/eraser - Eraser file shredder
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Lavasoft-ARIES-Rootkit-Remover.shtml - Aries Rootkit remover.

Remember to update and run all of you anti malware programs at least once a week.

Answer 10

Try adaware its a free anti spyware program, works well.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/