A computer is screwed up :(. Help please

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Jun 22 2006, 8:45 am
Hi,

Mt friends pc has good specs, but its really not in good shape because he has no anti-spyware and no anti virus program.
His computer has spyware and viruses...its obvious, slow download rates, 100s of pop ups etc. Is there a way to Safely clean his computer...

Sometimes when people use an anti-virus program it deletes certain files, when you run up windows after a restart it says Missing .dll or something. Is there a way to prevent this, but at the same time keep his computer safe. Thanks.
Jun 22 2006, 9:17 am
Well, to start with here's a free antivirus that I like to use. AVG.

http://free.grisoft.com

As for spyware/adware, I use Spybot - Search and Destroy.

http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html

I suppose I could give this a shot as well. After you or your friend give both of those a run, download HijackThis (it looks like a stick of dynamite and a plunger) and make a log file, and post it here. Don't try to fix anything with it yet, though. That's for later.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Jun 22 2006, 9:47 am
In response to Sarm
http://www.hijackthis.de/ that seems to work realitevly well, also when you use this stuff be sure to be in safemode.
Jun 22 2006, 1:03 pm
In response to Dark_Shadow_Ninja
No point using avg. I have got Symantec...but my friend from school told me to resintall windows for my other mate...
Jun 22 2006, 1:45 pm
In response to Sarm
Heart AVG.

Nishiatsu, you should also look into Adaware and Windows Defender.
Jun 22 2006, 2:13 pm
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
SSJ2GohanDBGT wrote:
Heart AVG.

Nishiatsu, you should also look into Adaware and Windows Defender.

LOL windows defender don't make me laugh you were right about the other to

AVG

and

Adaware

thats all i use AVG has a plugin for a firewall also look into that..
Jun 22 2006, 3:34 pm
Liek zomg liek format and reinstall windows.

WAIT

Install linux!!!!!!!!!!!!

...Linux can do everything...
Jun 22 2006, 3:47 pm
In response to Critical
Critical wrote:
...Linux can do everything...

Except play some games :( if it could do that then it would be the ultimate OS ever..
Jun 22 2006, 7:08 pm
In response to A.T.H.K
Windows Defender is okay (though sometimes annoyingly paranoid). It wasn't originally a Microsoft product, just so you know - they bought it and renamed it.