So last nite I got in from football ready to play DOD, I had a hankering for the KK server after the recent and quite excellent scrim. I was greeted by a PC that was practically crawling with malicious spyware, somehow I had allowed these "programs" onto my pc in the last day or so. Either that or a few had been there without me realising.
To put it bluntly, I had pop ups coming out of every available orifice. It was a clicking nightmare!
I ran Bullguard which until now has been my trusty anti-virus/anti-spyware utility, it found two malicious registry entries which I promptly allowed it to fix. I rebooted believing I was in the clear only to be greeted by the same problem. I couldn't chuffing believe it. In an attempt to rectify this I downloaded every anti-spyware piece of software I could, each said I was clean. Hmm, methinks not. The list included AVG anti spyware, spywareGuard, spyware blaster, etc. I basically downloaded every free spyware remover I could find.
None of the above solved this problem! You can imagine how much hair I had lost by now. So I downloaded Spyware doctor, the preliminary scan revealed that I had no less than 193 infections and that most of them were "high risk" including a few trojan horses which apparently let more spyware in.
The madness doesn't stop there though, early I had lost my bankcard (or it had been stolen) and so I was forced to have it cancelled. It didn't help that spyware Doctor requires a license (you gotta buy it) before you can actually remove the infections. No free trial or anything, just a free scan. So to sum up I need to buy this software to cure my pc but I can't because I have no bank card with which to pay. Fun huh.
So I am sitting here now with a screen telling me that my comp is well and truly screwed but I can't do anything about it.
Gotta wait till me rents wake up so I can ask to use their bank card,
oh bother
I can't believe none of the other programs found these problems, sucks
To put it bluntly, I had pop ups coming out of every available orifice. It was a clicking nightmare!
I ran Bullguard which until now has been my trusty anti-virus/anti-spyware utility, it found two malicious registry entries which I promptly allowed it to fix. I rebooted believing I was in the clear only to be greeted by the same problem. I couldn't chuffing believe it. In an attempt to rectify this I downloaded every anti-spyware piece of software I could, each said I was clean. Hmm, methinks not. The list included AVG anti spyware, spywareGuard, spyware blaster, etc. I basically downloaded every free spyware remover I could find.
None of the above solved this problem! You can imagine how much hair I had lost by now. So I downloaded Spyware doctor, the preliminary scan revealed that I had no less than 193 infections and that most of them were "high risk" including a few trojan horses which apparently let more spyware in.
The madness doesn't stop there though, early I had lost my bankcard (or it had been stolen) and so I was forced to have it cancelled. It didn't help that spyware Doctor requires a license (you gotta buy it) before you can actually remove the infections. No free trial or anything, just a free scan. So to sum up I need to buy this software to cure my pc but I can't because I have no bank card with which to pay. Fun huh.
So I am sitting here now with a screen telling me that my comp is well and truly screwed but I can't do anything about it.
Gotta wait till me rents wake up so I can ask to use their bank card,
oh botherI can't believe none of the other programs found these problems, sucks
