PC Help please

willy · #1 11-25-2008, 08:00 PM

Listen, on my home computer we have ended up with a virus that opens up endless browsers with pop ups on them and McAfee updated software does not recognise the problem and obviously can't deal with it. We cannot open a internet browser withour it going ape sh!t.
So do any of you guys got a suggestion as to what to do or what product will get rid of this crap. My neighbor suggested a product called Trend Micro ???
we have to go get the disk of whatever because we cannot open a browser

phester · #2 11-25-2008, 08:03 PM

love to help you young Will but I am NOT your man when it comes to computers......good luck

THEFERMANATOR · #3 11-25-2008, 08:06 PM

You had me going for a minute there WILLY, I thought you were thinking about going politically correct. Have you tried to delete ALL of your temporary files yet? It could be a cookie that is doing it, hence why your scanner isn't catching it.

willy · #4 11-25-2008, 08:12 PM

wife(ceo) much more computer savvy than yours truly spent hours doing that and other things and it still pops up, will open 60 to 90 browsers in minutes

THEFERMANATOR · #5 11-25-2008, 08:45 PM

Did she manually search for temp files? What operating system is your PC?

Skools Out · #6 11-25-2008, 10:25 PM

what kind of sites are they? you will need Nortons Antivirus your McAfee is doing nothing that software doesn't check the entire computer like Nortons. Get rid of McCrappy and get Nortons you should be able to fix it that way. if you can get a copy of Adware if might fix it as well.

Are you running Explorer? if so they isn't worth a crap either try to get Mozilla Firefox browser it is much safer and faster.

C YENSEN · #7 11-26-2008, 11:29 AM

sounds like willy was looking at too many supermodel sites......

Monkey Butler · #8 11-26-2008, 01:40 PM

You may already know this but many people don't so...

You can close windows as fast as they pop up by holding down the ALT key and hitting F4

This won't solve your root problem but it may help to break the chain of self propagating windows.

THEFERMANATOR · #9 11-26-2008, 01:47 PM

Also open up the task manager before you open your browser. Go through the processes part and see which program is working that doesn't look like it should be there when the windows are opening up. Right click it and end the process on it to see if this stops your windows from opening rapidly. If so go in and do a search for that program in your PC and delete the file.

garagenc · #10 11-26-2008, 08:37 PM

I had the same problem, a friend told me to use windows live onecare, you can get a free 90day subscription. I used it and it cleared mine. When my free sub ran out I found it online for $50 but went to Walmart and found it for $25. You can load it from the disc and clean your machine.