Laptop Virus Removal?
I need a secure site that I can download some stuff to remove viruses. I don’t want to have to take everything off my laptop to remove the virus. I recently got the "backdoor trojan" virus from something that downloaded. As soon as I found out it was on here, I got a "security toolbar 7.1" and it won’t go away. I have no idea why it’s there and I’m afraid to download anything in fear that it may be another virus in hiding. So any suggestions or sites that might help remove the virus would be good. I have the Norton Internet Virus protection, but it won’t remove the trojan virus. oh and I keep getting these pop ups even when I’m not online saying I have more spyware viruses and if you click on them a window pops up with a site to download a remover. I know from the last time I had a virus that I shouldn’t do that. So I have no idea what to do now.
Since Norton didn’t work, and because it’s a resource hog, untinstall Norton (use the linked removal tool, it makes the process easy). Download Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware, HiJackThis, and Avira Antivir.
Restart the computer in Safe Mode (start tapping F8 as soon as the computer starts to boot up, then choose Safe Mode with Networking).
Install the software. I’m assuming you don’t have other AV software, but if you do, it’s probably a good idea to uninstall that and install Avira Antivir, because obviously the last one wasn’t up to the task of keeping you clean.
After installing, make sure to update the software to get the latest definitions (this is why we chose Safe Mode with Networking).
Attempt to run the software from Safe Mode. You may have to restart the computer to complete installations. If you do, just go back into Safe Mode. Run what software you can (not all software can be run in Safe Mode; I’m not sure if Ad-Aware can), then restart into normal mode and run the software again.
N.B. By default, HiJackThis will give you "false positives" because it wants you to see everything that’s there and have you decide what should be there and what shouldn’t be. make sure to find out what needs to be taken off. You can check online forum for help, e.g. http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/hijackthis-log-help/
http://www.grisoft.com
They have excellent Anti-Virus and Malware removers.
Best of all, they are FREE! Including updates!
just download the avg free edition from grisoft and download spybot search & destroy.. they are good.
Your computer maybe already infected with adware/spyware/trojans.
You can try following antispywares to clean your computer
http://www.SecureMyWindows.com
http://www.superantispyware.com
Security Toolbar is a Internet Explorer toolbar (Browser Helper Object) designed to provide targetet advertisment, while you surf the Web. Security Toolbar may also generate false positives to scare users and trick to download rogue anti-spyware programs. This program can open Windows security backdoors and download other spyware. Remember to backup your regitry before removing Security Toolbar manually.
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here are manual removal instructions: