My laptop has a virus(es) that slow it down and always stop IE and firefox, that have come from "things" that I have downloaded or watched.My laptop even though I have deleted quite a few still have some of these porn videos lurking in some places and places I cannot find them.My laptop is covered by Pc Worlds £15 a month cover and I plan to give it to them to wipe and clean up the viruses.....There lies the rub...Will PC world notify me off what they find,snigger like girls when I collect or tell my mum/dad if they collect it what I have been watching?or worse?...Is this service strictly confidential or are bad things going to happen and I should just murder my laptop. HELP ME PLEASE!!!
2007-12-12 15:47:58 · 12 answers · asked by Scott M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Change all of your passwords immediately. That will speed it back up.
2007-12-12 15:51:12 · answer #1 · answered by lcmcpa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work for the Geek Squad and the parents would always ask specifically what site the viruses came from. Sometimes they even request a printout of the internet history. This service is not confidential If your parents ask they probably will tell them. But if you know your parents well enough to know that they will just get it with no questions asked then you will be fine.
Run multiple free virus and spyware cleaners to get some more of it off. Like Spybot search and destroy. Ad-aware Se. XsoftSpy is not free but good. It will give you the reg keys and specific file paths of the infected files of which you can then find and delete yourself.
2007-12-12 15:54:14 · answer #2 · answered by MzLeen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Picking up viruses after visiting a porn website is very common, so I'm sure they're not going to ridicule and embarrass you. I'm in America, where we have confidentiallity laws, requiring service providers not to divulge such things to cause embarrassment on their clients, else they risk lawsuits, paying legal attorney fees, and punitive damages. I would guess England has similar laws on the books.
2007-12-12 15:59:49 · answer #3 · answered by Corporate America !! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG Antivirus
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Avast Antivirus
www.avast.com
2007-12-16 02:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by galaxy_hunter91 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First restart your computer in safe mode.
Turn of system restore.
Now disable ur net
and now scan your computer with Nod 32 or any other reputable virus scanner.
U can also scan ur computer for free in
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
and if all this fails just Reformat ur drive C... XD
and start buying cds n dvds he he :P
hope this helps :)
2007-12-12 16:06:03 · answer #5 · answered by ragnarok 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like you might of downloaded viruses.
Download a virus scanner and thoroughly scan your computer.
A good virus scanner is AVG and Avast! (google them) and they are also free!
Good Luck!
2007-12-12 15:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude just get a movie and stop looking up porn on the net
2007-12-12 15:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yo if u got ur windows cd put it in a reinstall the windows thats will erese everything it will be like you just got the computer whit all the programs that came whit the computer the bad side is all ur music, pic, games ect. will be gone i had this same problem and thats wat i did ...good luck
2007-12-12 15:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by Cobra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They'll tell your mum, for sure. And your school.
I used to work there, we loved doing it too.
"There lies the rub" - stop that too!
2007-12-12 15:54:46 · answer #9 · answered by Trev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they'll just clean it up, but you'll be without a couple days. could be worse if you keep going to those sites.
2007-12-12 15:51:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋