'pooter blues
I've got a nasty, insidious form of malware on my computer that is gunging everything up and making it very difficult to remove. It crashes my spyware removal program, which means I have to reboot, which means the malware resets itself, which means I have to start all over again.All of which prevents me from blogging. Blargh.
Stupid, mean, nasty spyware.
posted by projgen @ 21:37
7 Comments:
Have you tried Spybot? It gets some stuff that the other one can't.
You might have to reformat. Damn computer bugs!
positive it's malware? run stinger just in case... then run spybot/adaware. good luck!
meramoo - Spybot, Search & Destroy, Spysweeper, Ad-aware - you name, I've got it and am trying it.
Jenny - Did you say the "R" word???? Wash your mouth out with soap, young lady. You do not use that kind of language on my blog! ;)
anon - I'm pretty sure it's malware, but I'm off to download stinger and give it a shot, thanks!
I am not going to be the friend everyone loves to smack who says "Get a mac! They're virtually immune!"
See how I'm not going to say it?
Miss your blogging, PG. Hope your computer lets you out of prison soon.
Mac's are fine, the thing is you have to buy new hardware to get it.
For emergencies like these, it might be a good idea to have some Live CD's lying around.
You pop the CD in the drive, reboot and automagically a fresh system starts up.
Ubuntu distributes Live CD's for free, they send you one in the mail:
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
You can also download them.
The software is available for free because it's Linux.
Make sure you are not online when you are running programs such as Ad-aware and Spybot.
See what programs are set to run at Startup.
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