HELP FAST!! (not the name of a program.)

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:54 pm

I need a virus scanner thats free and good NOW. my computer has been slower and slower lately. The other day I had 15 gigabytes left on my hard drive. now I have 2.5!!!! and I didnt even pirate that much since then!!!

somebody, please help, if anything happens to my computer, my mom with take it to the overpriced PC shop, where they'll charge $200 to "fix" a 5 year old computer. And I'll have to pay, and she wont let me and my friends (friends are geniuses) fix it. It's happened before!!!

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:58 pm

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:04 pm

Thank you!!!!

benol · Post by **benol** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:05 pm

T3h Titul wrote:(not the name of a program.)

lulz.

Viruses, eh? What did you do?

Post by **Triton** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:05 pm

also avast, Ccleaner, tune-up 2007, and ad-aware

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:10 pm

benol wrote:
T3h Titul wrote:(not the name of a program.)
lulz.

Viruses, eh? What did you do?

download at least 40 gigs of music and movies over the past few months, along with plenty of games

no pr0n though, i wouldnt do that to the poor computer.

Ben Cebhrem · Post by **Ben Cebhrem** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:55 pm

For particulary nasty viruses, try HijackThis. I've used it myself to manually rid myself of a trojan in which no antivirus I tried could get rid of.

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:57 pm

Make sure you disable System restore or else they'll most likely pop back up whenever you reboot.

An example: I went to Misteroo's website (the guy who made Hero Coyal and Arfenhouse), and as it turns out it was hacked. Long story short I wound up with a trojan dropper: Dropper.Small. AVG eradicated it from the Firefox cache (which I purged anyway), and found it hiding in the System restore executables. Normally you can't access this, not even as the Administrator. I disabled system restore, rebooted, and am now running a full system scan. Paranoid? Maybe. You can't be too safe, you know?

The best thing you can do is get a router if your DSL/Cable modem is plugged right into the computer. (And use common sense.)

EDIT: Wow I need to delete some crap off this machine. 280 gigs of space total and most of it is full.

Great tools:
AVG Free
Ad-Aware 2007
ZoneAlarm Free
CCleaner
Startup Control Panel

(use Google.)