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Help with Spyware

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 9:54 pm
by whmatthews
My wife was browsing the internet when she got a suspicious pop-up saying that she had a trojan. I logged on later and noticed several pop-ups about trojans, one coming up about every 20 seconds. The pop-ups were coming from "Alpha-Antivirus" which is something we did not download. I googled it and found it was spyware. How can I remove this?? Thanks!

Re: Help with Spyware

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 10:08 pm
by LUconn
do you have spybot s&d? Start with that.

Re: Help with Spyware

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 10:19 pm
by Hold My Own
whmatthews wrote:My wife was browsing the internet when she got a suspicious pop-up saying that she had a trojan. I logged on later and noticed several pop-ups about trojans, one coming up about every 20 seconds. The pop-ups were coming from "Alpha-Antivirus" which is something we did not download. I googled it and found it was spyware. How can I remove this?? Thanks!

Sounds like to me your wife was wanting to see someone better looking :lol:



I kid I kid

Re: Help with Spyware

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 10:46 pm
by RubberMallet
malwarebytes will take care of it.

Re: Help with Spyware

Posted: September 26th, 2009, 11:06 pm
by Liberty4Life
Get Ad-Aware for a one-time cleaning of spyware.

Next, get a program called "CCleaner". I run the registry & the default cleaner about once a week.

Also, for heavy-duty, as the guy above just mentioned, Malwarebyte's anti-malware is pretty much the best available.