I bought my computer from a friend of a friend about 3 months ago. It’s a Toshiba with Windows Vista. I felt that it wasn’t running quickly enough so I did a quick scan which turned up lots of hits for not so legal cites (porn, illegal downloads, etc) how do I clean my computer so that it runs at full speed and doesn’t give my the "you have a security problem" message? is there any way to do it for free?
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Get a good spyware adware remover. This page contains one of the most recommended removers, take a look at this http://www.squidoo.com/bestspywareadwareremoval
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Download it and clean your computer, after restarting computer, problem disappears
Please download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, update it and run a full scan. Remove everything it finds.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
If you are still having problems with your computer, I recommend that you go to bleepingcomputer.com in order to remove all traces of malware in your computer.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
Anti virus and firewall pro
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html
or
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
in combination with
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
Spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Threatfire is an anti virus, that can be installed next to any other anti virus program on the same computer
http://www.threatfire.com/
This is a very good program, that completely runs in the background
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
Anti spyware
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-105-malwarebytes-anti-malware
http://www.download.com/Advanced-System-Protector-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10904375.html
Installing these programs, will not use any extra RAM or CPU usage.
Microsoft has an excellent free Scanner and also a 90 day/ 3 mth trial of their Live Protection.
Go to http://www.microsoft.com
Security & Updates tab click for Home Users
Next, Under the Security Products bar located to the right of the screen, select Windows Live OneCare or Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner.
If you select Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner this will run a quick scan on your pc and remove any viruses, spyware, trojans, etc. that you may have on your computer.
If you select Windows Live OneCare this will enable you to download the free trial of the program by clicking on Free Trial (unless you want to purchase right now – if that’s the case press buy now).
(NOTE: You will need to uninstall all other antivirus or firewall programs that you currently have on your computer in order to install Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare.
These programs are all free. Malwarebytes and Superantispyware should get rid of any infection you may have. Use CCleaner to delete temp files and invalid registry entries.
(Malwarebytes)
http://www.download.com/3001-8022_4-10804572.html?spi=5f49f40cb9604f960a0a3a7fd0f89273&part=dl-10804572
(CCleaner)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/download/e3ebc0a8a4669ed106ad70d0ac3dfd3f/
(Superantispyware)
http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE
Download CCleaner at http://www.ccleaner.com. It beats every other freeware program that you can get. I run it once every couple weeks and my computer runs amazing.
here is a list of online virus scanners Onecare.Live.com (this is microsoft’s) Housecall.Trendmicro.com Symantec.com Comodo.com these are free and will remove them from your machine
You should use an antivirus program and antispyware software, because your computer is now infected with viruses and/or spyware.
Here you have more information on computer security, as well as good and free programs that you can download into your computer:
The website list top ten the best and newest anti-spyware in 2008.
http://toptenantispyware.com/
All are safe and can be trusted and you can download one.