I have a problem with internet/virus?

Question

i download gamevance a few days ago and i got a c**p load of spam ads and i uninstalled gamevance, but ads kept on appearing and tried getting rid of them by deleting a few programs that i didnt really know but seemed to be 'harmful to my computer' (told to me by seruity task manager) and after that firefox seems to try and get to yahoo.com but seems to get stuck same when i try to do a google search and when i access msn the internet just shuts down. i have down some virus scans with hijack this and avg 8 and none seem to help. i think the virus might still be there so.... help me out

Answer 1

Clean the machine completely, reboot and reformat! And, this time, remember to install all available updates with facility for automatic updates to keep the machine protected all the time!

Answer 2

download windows one live care it deletes all kinds of viruses they give you 90 days of free trial just make a full scan and it will automatically delete them try it i use to have alot of viruses but i try it this program and it delete it everything its from microsoft.com so it really works

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Answer 3

I pretty sure it is not a virus but a registry problems. Errors and invalid entries in the registry can cause this problems. You need to use a registry cleaner. You can find information and reviews on registry cleaners at the link below.

Answer 4

The only way to get rid of adware is spybot search and destroy.

Install spybot search and destroy, update, scan, remove spyware and immunise your system against future infection.

Spybot search and destroy is the best free anti-spyware tool that contains many features.

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Spybot search and destroy immunize your computer against spyware.

It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.

There is a second layer of protection for IE that blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Spybot Resident a tool which check permanently running application to protect your system.

Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and immediately detects known malicious processes.

It giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future:

You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.

Spybot host file locking is a tool which locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.

Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;

Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.

Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications it will display a green checkmark in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,

and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate

Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,

including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes

Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.

If those items are in the database coming with Spybot, it will display some more information about them.

It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items. The entries will be displayed in different colours:

Green: legitimate program

Yellow: unknown, unneeded or unambiguous program (e.g. malware programs might use the same file name as legitimate programs)

Red: malicious program



Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.

Answer 5

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