My computer was basically attacked the other day, and my computer was filled to the brim with spyware and viruses, all because my lazy dad forgot to buy McAfee a few weeks ago, and never did it. I downloaded the trial version of McAfee and removed all the virus i could (i think i got em all). Next i downloaded Ad-Aware because i kept getting fake warning messages and pop-ups about my computer being infected, and things like,download this program! buy this, get rid of spyware and adware! i ran ad-aware and found a total of 948 infections on my computer, and got rid of those. Unfortunatley after restarting my computer, there was still one thing left that it didnt catch, and periodically, it pops up saying that “Somebody’s attacking your computer. Click OK to get spyware blocker and protection” i rescanned and found nothing else, can somebody help me get rid of this once and for all?
I tried safe mode already and everything but it didn’t work, and yes as stated in one of the answers i agreed to install an Active X codec to watch a video. I feel so stupid, because this is the second time I’ve fallen for it.
Spyware Blockers
You need to run it in Safe Mode (tap F8 as the computer boots up and choose to boot to safe mode).
Ideally you should run a virus removal program in Safe Mode (without networking) and reboot and repeat the scan and reboot until there is a cycle where no virus is detected.
The idea behind the Safe Mode is that the operating system would only load your essential programs and drivers to the memory and hence there is a “high” chance that the virus-infected file is on the drive but not loaded into memory. This would enable the AV to clean it easily and the next reboot/scan would detect nothing. There could still be a small possibility that one of the drivers or programs that are loaded by the OS in the Safe Mode is infected. That’s why you need to keep rebooting and rescanning to make sure you’ve found them all.
Spyware Blockers
You need to run it in Safe Mode hold F8 as the computer boots up and choose to boot to safe mode.