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    Virus in my IE

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Badmintonboy, Jul 10, 2006.

  1. Badmintonboy

    Badmintonboy Notebook Guru

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    I think my IE has some sort of virus in it. When I'm surfing the net, it will automatically turned into a certain webpage once in a while. how should I fix that?


    thanks a lot
     
    Badmintonboy, Jul 10, 2006
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  2. KimizChamp

    KimizChamp Notebook Geek

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    Download a good antivirus program like Kapersky. It'll find the virus / spyware (if there is one) and remove it. That should solve the problem :).

    Do let us know how it works out ;)
     
    KimizChamp, Jul 10, 2006
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  3. wobble987

    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    thats not a virus! its a spyware! to remove use spybot search&destroy and lavasoft ad-aware; they're both are free. to prevent use spyware blaster; theese 3 are essential nowdays. though, i also use zonealarm security suite; the other 3 program might be an overkill :p
     
    wobble987, Jul 10, 2006
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  4. Syndrome

    Syndrome Torque Matters

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    Just use firefox that way you don't have to worry about spyware. I've been using Firefox for around 2 years and I haven't gotten anything other then cookies since then.
     
    Syndrome, Jul 10, 2006
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  5. Badmintonboy

    Badmintonboy Notebook Guru

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    hi, are you guys sure that s a Spyware? cause I just used microsoft antispyware to scanned it and found nothing, but the problem still exsit.
     
    Badmintonboy, Jul 10, 2006
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  6. wobble987

    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    microsoft anti spyware is not the best for detecting spyware... usually u need to use more than one anti spyware and do FULL SYSTEM SCAN to get rid of all the one that gets to hard to reach places. combination of ad-aware and spybot is the best, in addition to that i also use zonealarm which sometimes caught the one that ad-aware miss, vice versa.
     
    wobble987, Jul 11, 2006
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  7. _radditz_

    _radditz_ Fallen to the Sith...

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    I use AVG and it found 2 trojans in the firefox browser cache that both Spybot & Ad-aware missed. Hows that for unlucky eh?
     
    _radditz_, Jul 11, 2006
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  8. uncleG

    uncleG Notebook Consultant

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    Best advices are to use firefox or opera, clean with a program called "HijackThis"
    found here: http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html
    Scan with better virus/spyware programs like kaspersky and Spyware Doctor.

    :)
     
    uncleG, Jul 11, 2006
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