I need some computer help.

[thepixiesrock]

I have this problem, I gat a lot of pop-ups, but not regular pop-ups. When I run a scan of my computer, it says I have some trojan dropper something. I had AdBlocker or something , but the trial period ran out. So my question is, how do I get rid of that trojan droper thing, or, what is a good pop-up blocker for that kind of thing?

[WinterSun]

Do you have virus protection?Norton works for blocking Trojan hacks,I find.

[Walsingham]

I have two virus programs, one running and one in reserve for 'contract' work. I also have adaware blocker, and spybot search and destroy running. Kills everything dead. The antivirusware is expensive, but the other stuff is free.

 

I strongly suggest you load up. Viruses and spyware are no-longer just a nuisance.

[thepixiesrock]

My antivirus is AVG, I have spyware blaster and spybot search and destroy. I don't know how to use this stuff to block/get rid of trojans though.

[Petay]

I strongly suggest you load up. Viruses and spyware are no-longer just a nuisance.

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Sounds like some kind of advertisement for it.

 

I too have got a lot of Norton anti-virus and spyware/adware stopper programs on my computer at the moment. About a week ago I had a trojan on my computer that loaded up a search engine on my desktop every time i started up, which I couldn't get rid of. I sent my computer off to PCWorld for a Healthcheck and that deleted it, so I can only recommend that kind of thing .

 

[Kitch]

ClamWin Antivirus

AVG Free Edition

Zone Alarm Firewall

Microsoft Antispyware

Ad-Aware (Spyware remover)

Spybot Seach & Destroy (Spyware remover)

Hijack This (be careful with this one if you don't know how to use it) and CWShredder (removes CoolWebSearch spyware) can be found here - http://merijn.org/downloads.html

 

Also, if you haven't already, use Firefox as your browser. It's updated quite often so check for it every now and then.

[mkreku]

For a really good antivirus: http://www.kaspersky.com/ (Kaspersky Antivirus Personal Pro)

For a really good software firewall: http://www.agnitum.com/ (Outpost Firewall Pro)

[Walsingham]

I strongly suggest you load up. Viruses and spyware are no-longer just a nuisance.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sounds like some kind of advertisement for it.

 

 

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Sadly it is a fact that I get every single line of my dialogue from adverts. Even this one.

[Petay]

And i thought i watched a lot of T.V....

[EnderAndrew]

Find the exact name of the trojan and do a Google search for it.

 

To make sure you don't get new viruses and spyware, I recommend you do the following:

 

Use Firefox.

Install a HOSTS file.

Install Spybot Search and Destroy. It can immunize your system against Spyware as well as remove it.

Install Adaware.

And believe it or not, Microsoft has a really good beta Spyware program that will prevent Spyware and viruses.

[thepixiesrock]

Thatnks fellas. I'll see how googling it works out.

[EnderAndrew]

Generally Googling the name will give you specific instructions for removing that particular trojan.

 

I use AVG and Housecall and they've worked quite well for me.

[thepixiesrock]

As I said, I have AVG, Spyware Blaster, and Spybot: Search and Destroy.

[EnderAndrew]

Housecall is an online virus scan. It isn't installed, but I use it to backup AVG. AVG is free and quite good, but somepeople insist that it doesn't catch everything, so I do Housecall checks from time to time.

 

If you use Firefox, you won't get popups at all.

 

I also like Maxthon, which is like a Firefox-esque version of IE. It blocks pop-ups, float ads, pop-unders, ActiveX scripts, etc.

 

It has all the security of Firefox, but uses the IE rendering engine. But I didn't want to start a browser arguement.

[Finger of Death]

Use Kaspersky,the best one.

[Ashram Darkstar]

Another one I haven't seen mentioned in this thread that I would recommend trying is Spy Sweeper from Webroot. In truth you should probably run multiple programs to try and catch everything on your system. Some of the products mentioned do better jobs at removing certain types of spyware/adverts than others.

[LadyCrimson]

When all else fails, re-format.

Once you learn to keep your system organized in such a way as to make it a fairly simple process to save the files you must have, it's really pretty painless to reformat.

 

Tho the re-installs of software is always a pain.

I've known people who've spent hours to get rid of a virus/trojan when it'd take half that time just to re-format/re-install everything.