My roomate tried to download bit torrents, iso burners, keygens, trackers, etc on my computer. None of his efforts worked! However, my computer is having issues and running much slower. How do I clean all this (bleep) up?
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You can use reg clean.
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Run your recovery disks to erase everything and get it back to a clean state. That's the only way to make sure everything is gone (so key loggers won't be left to steal your credit card). Then set up your computer so you need a password to log into any admin account. Make the main account a limited account. Then your roommate won't be able to screw it up again.
Obviously you can go through your control panel (Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs). You can then sort your programs by Date Last Used (assuming these are fairly recent additions by your roomate, and/or added fairly close together) (drop-down box in upper right-hand corner of dialog box), and this should sort pretty much by the date they were added, and you can go through and manually delete each program.
There is also a tool that I have seen referenced by PC World, Maximum PC, etc. for removal of junk programs that might help:
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home
If your roommate has downloaded a virus, trojan or bot, in the process, then that will require additional anti-virus, etc., scanning and removal may be necessary as well.
I agree with the other answerer, you should do a virus scan in safe mode, while your at it do a spyware scan also, hope i was of some help, Good luck
Start at the top of this list. Install the products one at a time. After you install each one, be sure to install all of their updates. Have each one complete a full scan before proceeding to the next one. One of these *should* fix your problem. Work down the list until your problem disappears. Keep in mind that everyone of these things is either free of charge or open source. You should use more than one anti-spyware package because there is no one spyware package that will detect everything. Each one will pick up things that the others miss. Part of this is based on what gets submitted to the people who make the software which in turn is based on what the users encounter. There are so many that its hard to create a comprehensive list of everything out there that spies on you.
When you're done, be sure to go to Windows Update and apply ALL of the patches. Don't just run the "Express" updates. Run "Custom" and pick all of the software that's available to you. It make take several times before you no longer have patches. Once that's done, be sure to turn on your automatic updates. For Windows XP – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525. For Vista – http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/faq.mspx
Make sure that you're not running a cracked version of Windows or other software packages. Software doesn't get cracked for the benefit of humanity. It gets cracked because a hacker somewhere wants you run his software on your computer. That means he can use your computer to serve porn and send spam. Or capture your user names and passwords for identity theft.
1) Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
2) Windows Defender – http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
3) Lavasoft Adware – http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.phpi
4) Clamwin Antivirus – http://www.clamwin.com/
5) Fsecure Black Light – http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/
Try AVG anti-virus (free): http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0
then
Try AVG anti-spyware (free): http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0
where did u download them to??
maybe you downloaded a virus with the keygens
try virus scan and deleting them off the folders
if that doesnt work.. think about backing up your pc and maybe trying a format
Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some regsitry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".
Everytime you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Regisry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!
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