Spyware are programs that sneak onto your system and do anything from
sending your internet activies out to third parties to allowing unknown people
to use your machine or keep you from websites and search engined you would like
to use. It is also as a class responsible for most "pop ups" which happen with
and without browsers being open.
The following two programs will do much to restore a system and must be
run as each person who uses the computer(many pieces of spyware originate as
cookies in user specific locations.
The first link will take you to this page where you click on the
download now button
The page will change and you will see this dialog. Hit the save button
and save it on your C drive.
When it finishes saving it to a file, then type open and enter "next"
to every question until it says "finish".
Go to your desktop and double click this program:
You will see this program:
click on the "check for updates now" which will bring up this
dialog:
Select "connect" and take any updates there are. There will be
something like this suggested:
When it is done click finish.
Now that you have the latest version of spyware objects in the program
it is time to run it. Press the "start"
button in the lower right:
Then you will hit this dialog and enter "next".
The system will get very busy and you will see a substantial number of
"new objects" and these are bad......
All the items it found we want to quarantine......
So click "next" again to see them all and right-click your mouse in the
place they are all listed to see this choice and select with the left mouse
click "select all objects" and enter "next" again. It will tell you how many
items will be removed and just click "ok".
You will probably be told it could not remove them all and it will want
permission to run again after a system restart. Say YES!!! If that happen,
restart your system and as you log in it will start up and scan. Repeat the
process of selecting them all and letting it remove them.
