Pop-ups and allsorts happening

[Phoenix .]

Don't know whats wrong with my laptop and desk top, since Christmas been unindated with pop-ups interrupting my tasks and playing scrabble, never had this before, have I got gremlins?
Checked my firewall and microsoft essential security but nothing found.

Anyone got any easy suggestions /solutions I would be most grateful for any help.

[GunJack]

Dec 28, 2013 7:16:07 GMT Phoenix . said:

Don't know whats wrong with my laptop and desk top, since Christmas been unindated with pop-ups interrupting my tasks and playing scrabble, never had this before, have I got gremlins?
Checked my firewall and microsoft essential security but nothing found.

Anyone got any easy suggestions /solutions I would be most grateful for any help.

ok, MSE isn't great, so should be replaced with avast or avira free editions. First job is to download & install malwarebytes, (do not activate the free trial of the Pro version during the installation) and run a quick scan. Remove all it finds (probably have to reboot machine as part of this). Re-run again, do same. Then take it from there..you may need to do other things like remove search engines and reset browser homepages too.

just remember you can only have one av on there at a time, MBAM is not an av, so it's fine to be on the machine with an av.

www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

www.filehippo.com/download_antivir/

www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/

[daveyboy37]

Malwarebytes is great and as GunJack says will run nicely with your anti-virus.
This part is only my own personal opinion. Go with Avira ...not Avast. I clean up laptops on a regular basis and Avast isn't what it used to be and certainly no better than MSE.
Avira all the way.

[Super-Shiny]

SuperAntiSpyware is also good to have alongside Malwarebytes as they both find things each other cannot.

www.superantispyware.com/

[chykensa]

As well as Avast (sorry, daveyboy37!) and MBAS, I have Spybot which nearly always finds something the others haven't. Funny, I had a good cleanup of my laptop yesterday, and found a couple of things which were better quarantined - no idea where they came from, but better to be safe rather than sorry!

[Super-Shiny]

I done a guide here ages ago for cleaning a p.c of any hidden dangers: allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/17492/romelees-1-10-step-guide?page=1&scrollTo=332514

[daveyboy37]

Dec 28, 2013 9:21:20 GMT chykensa said:

As well as Avast (sorry, daveyboy37!) and MBAS, I have Spybot which nearly always finds something the others haven't. Funny, I had a good cleanup of my laptop yesterday, and found a couple of things which were better quarantined - no idea where they came from, but better to be safe rather than sorry!

No need to apologise lol. People tend to stick with what they know best and what works for them. Nothing wrong with that.
I also believe it's true that people who know about programs like Spybot, Ad-Aware and MalwareBytes also tend to be more security conscious with the websites they go on and the links they click, so less vulnerable in the first place.

Oh.. That reminds me just gotta give my bank details to a nice chap in Nigeria... Apparently "Mr. David" has just one $20 million dollars. Happy days.
Provari at last!

[Deleted]

For years I've used:

Spybot- Search and Destroy
CCleaner
Avast.

Daveyboy...What makes Avira better? I've noticed quite a few changes over the last year in Avast, not sure its what it used to be.

This thread has reminded me to get a new ext HD as need to back up, my last ExHD has gone to sleep. That's something that's essential and so easy to do on some pc's. A reinstall back to an earlier date.

[Deleted]

Has your browser been taken over too, Phoenix .? As Nation Zoom is now another to watch out for malwaretips.com/blogs/nation-zoom-removal/ If you've escaped this one, then at least it's here if anyone is unfortunate enough to have it.

Hope you manage to get rid of whatever.

[bernardscott]

Advanced system care 7 is great, I highly recommend it!

Great all in one software with some powerful features.

If you have any ransomeware or hard viruses hitman pro is the one to use

[oldleatherlungs]

Norton Internet Security does the business for me, coupled with Comodo Firewall.

[toots]

Eset Smart Security - all in one software, does the lot, pay about £30 a year for the whole package.

The engineer who built my computer from spec installed it and when I added some malware and spyware programs my computer went seriously wrong so he took them off and told me just use Eset - don't need anything else apparently.

[daveyboy37]

Dec 28, 2013 12:43:06 GMT toots said:

Eset Smart Security - all in one software, does the lot, pay about £30 a year for the whole package.

The engineer who built my computer from spec installed it and when I added some malware and spyware programs my computer went seriously wrong so he took them off and told me just use Eset - don't need anything else apparently.

Eset AntiVirus is truly awesome for detection.

[daveyboy37]

Dec 28, 2013 9:21:20 GMT chykensa said:

As well as Avast (sorry, daveyboy37!) and MBAS, I have Spybot which nearly always finds something the others haven't. Funny, I had a good cleanup of my laptop yesterday, and found a couple of things which were better quarantined - no idea where they came from, but better to be safe rather than sorry!

No need to apologise.. I personally don't use any of them.

What's more... I must be really tired because to quote Robby's signature..."I'm talking Bollox"

There is nothing at all wrong with Avast... It was AVG free version that has gone to sh*t, not avast...

I need to sleep. Shame I'm at work til 7.

[chykensa]

Ah, that's interesting, I swopped from AVG to Avast! about 6 months ago, and am relieved that all the incessant AVG pop-ups and persuaders to upgrade to the 'Pro' version have ended.
Avast! it is then