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pc scanners

Postby xr2irhys on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:29 pm

any one got any good pc scaners free ones they can recomned which scans for every thing not just one thing such as virus's ? i have adverts popping up on the internet for no reason so know its some adaware but my ad-aware programe cant find it
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Re: pc scanners

Postby Ollie on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:49 pm

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Re: pc scanners

Postby JamieFRST on Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:56 pm

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Re: pc scanners

Postby xr2irhys on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:08 am

tried them jamie a bit confused , just want a good scanner which will pick it up and remove
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Re: pc scanners

Postby JamieFRST on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:15 am

The top 3 links are antivirus\malware scanners and removers. The other two links are things I use to stop spyware\adware\malware getting on to my system in the first place.


So have you already tried avg and it didnt find anything?
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Re: pc scanners

Postby xr2irhys on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:32 am

JamieFRST :The top 3 links are antivirus\malware scanners and removers. The other two links are things I use to stop spyware\adware\malware getting on to my system in the first place.


So have you already tried avg and it didnt find anything?


nope nothing had avg for while and it not picked nothing up
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Re: pc scanners

Postby JamieFRST on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:36 am

Avg often misses stuff, try spybot its more designed on adware removal http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
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Re: pc scanners

Postby xr2irhys on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:53 am

yep just found that one when googled , seems ok so far , ill let u know if it still happens
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Re: pc scanners

Postby - Danny Boy - on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:14 pm

If you still get popups.. and your not using firefox... get firefox :) 10x better than IE :D
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Re: pc scanners

Postby Hilton HS2 on Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:52 pm

Spybot
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Usually sorts the buggers out.
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Re: pc scanners

Postby M1K3Y_B on Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:28 am

Danny Boy UK :If you still get popups.. and your not using firefox... get firefox :) 10x better than IE :D


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