My computer is vulnerable, and I get notifications of malicious spyware and adware installed. Including notifications for trojans. I also receive malicious pop-ups. How do I remove trojans, adware/spyware and viruses for no charge?
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I have tried spydoctor, spybot, and a few others that download for free and then scan my computer, but once they find the infected files they tell me that I have to purchase the program in order to remove the infected files that were found.
So my computer has this thing called new malware.j that macafee keeps detecting on something called svchost.exe. I read somewhere that svchost is a processor or something but viruses can disguise themselves as that so I’m guessing that’s happening right now. Is there a way to remove it?
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I do a lot of work with computers for family and friends, including malware and virus removal. I’ve been doing it forever now, and I have always wondered how malware gets its name.
Do security vendors (McAfee, NOD32, etc.) just give them arbitrary names or do the malware writers name them? Some of them seem fairly strait forward, like the name W32/PoisonIvy.NQ. Others seem like randomly thrown together letters and numbers, which I’m pretty sure some are acronyms.
Any answers are appreciated. 
Here’s the story:
Earlier this evening, I was trying to transfer some files, when Windows Explorer randomly crashed. I thought it was a glitch, and opened it up again, only to have it crash again almost immediately. After restarting twice and having the same problem, I had AVG scan my computer and it turns out I got a Trojan Horse virus this afternoon. More specifically, AVG’s calling it Trojan Horse Generic10.BCHQ. I’ve looked around for a trojan removal program, and while many programs will scan for free, I’ll have to shell out twenty or thirty dollars for an automatic removal. So instead, I’ve opted to manually delete the files the spyware detectors have found.
But how am I supposed to delete files if I can’t leave Windows Explorer open? I can view the files with Firefox or Internet Explorer, but is there anyway to delete the files from there? Should I delete the files manually at all or is there another *free* option?
okay, so basically…the computer had been running strangely lately. when i had enough of it, i installed and ran malwarebytes. countless trojans! i had the files quarantined and removed. computer needed to restart, so i allowed it to. only now, i get the "sorry for the inconvenience…windows failed to load successfully" — over and over again. it’s basically an infinite loop. i’ve tried to run the recovery console from an xp disc, but have encountered a problem — it keeps asking for an administrator password when there is none. what do i do? please help!!!!!!!
any possibility i could slave the hard drive (to back up what’s on the computer now) and just recover it???
