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Angry Dad wrote:It's called malware a red box with a black m in it as its logo, don't ask me what I have I don't even know how to use the micro wave!! It's just a main computer, I'm on my I pad now. If my boy can't do it will have to go to my guy vince,but I'm not too keen on that as it has nude stuff of the wife on it ,you know how it is.Reebok_Rebel wrote:Angry - depending on what malware it is, getting rid of it can be tricky.
what kind of malware is it? do you know? symptoms etc?
problem is, most software you can get that will get rid of it is either protected by certain companies (Ie - exclusively for them) or costs a bomb and 50% of the time still dont work. be careful of stuff advertised as 'free' 'cleaners' or the like - chances are they are just scam programs that tell you you have a really serious virus just to make you 'upgrade' (ie buy) something from them.
there are certain programs that will get rid of malware (malwarebytes or hijack this) but they are not for novice users - you can really fuck stuff up if you dont know what your doing.
the only sure fire way to get rid of it if you dont want to spend hours deleting various files and running certain programs that take hours and hours, if im honest, is to re-format the drive and start again from scratch.
do you have a recovery disk or are you using a Laptop with no CD drive?
you dirty fecker!
delete the nude stuff before giving it to him. right click on the icon and chose delete, make sure you empty the recycle bin beforehand though!
it sounds like malwarebytes that you described, it should be able to be uninstalled through control panel.
if you have the windows recovery disk you shuold be able to do it, its pretty simple. if you dont have them disks you need a copy of windows from scan or PC world and do it with them.
if you mate is offering 'free' copies of windows - they will be illegal copies and wont update themselves, you will also get prompted of Microsoft to pay a fee to make it 'genuine' as well.
