How We Remove Viruses and Spyware - |
by The Help2Go Community | |
November 6, 2009 | |
Here at Help2Go, we will work with you to remove viruses and spyware from your computer, absolutely FREE. The only requirement is that YOU have to help us do it. Unless you follow the directions below, you will not receive a response to your spyware or virus problem. We receive many many questions every day, and as a volunteer service, we can only help those who are willing to help themselves. Have we got a deal? Great, then read on! Please note: If you have a general computer question unrelated to spyware or browser hijacks, please post it to the Computer Help Forum instead. Before you do anything, we suggest that you bookmark this article so that you can return to it later. To clean your computer, first we are going to ask you to run some software. These software utilities are well-known throughout the anti-malware community as being the best tools for the job, and they are free for our purposes here. Step 1: CCleanerCCleaner is a little utility that removes unneeded temporary files from your computer. Step 2: SuperAntiSpywareUnfortunately, there is no single anti-spyware program that removes ALL spyware. So we use two different scanners to make sure that nothing slips by.SuperAntiSpyware is the first anti-spyware program you should scan your computer with. It is free for personal use. Read SuperAntiSpyware tutorial Step 3: MalwarebytesThe next antispyware program we will use is called Malwarebytes Anti-malware, Download Malwarebytes view tutorial Please note: If you already have SUPERAntiSpyware and/or Malwarebytes be sure to check for updates before scanning with them! Step 4: AntivirusYou should have an up-to-date anti-virus program running on your computer. Anti-virus is NOT like anti-spyware. You should only have ONE anti-virus program running on your PC. If you don't have one, we recommend the free Avast anti-virus. Download Avast Step 5: HijackThisThe next step is to create a HijackThis log and check it with the Help2Go Detective. Download HijackThisStep 6: Post in the Spyware Help forumNow post the contents of your HijackThis log file as well as your Malwarebytes Anti-malware log file and SuperAntiSpyware log file. We cannot and will not analyze your HijackThis log without a Malwarebytes log and a SuperAntiSpyware log as well. When you do post your question in our Spyware Help forum, please check the box in your post that says "Notify me when a reply is posted". That way, you will get an email when someone posts a fix for your problem.
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