I. Hate. Spyware.
Nov. 14th, 2007 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saxikathGot my computer spywared. Trying to fix it, running an anti-spyware program, computer crashed hard. IE won't even open anymore. I do seem to have gotten rid of at least some of the bad stuff, but I think there's still more around.
Never thought I'd say thank goodness for AOL, but I'm glad my computer had an AOL browser installed. I was able to get that open and download Firefox, which I'm now using instead of IE. (Which isn't a bad thing, anyway. But ugh.)
If someone with a clue about these things wanted to take my computer and see if you can clean it out properly, I would be very appreciative. Appreciative in the form of food, or favors, or, you know, whatever we can negotiate. :)
Lousy evening chez Saxikath. Lots of tension in the jaw... think it's time for a hot bath and an early bed.
(ETA: I think I may have gotten rid of the junk, or at least more of it than I had before. IE's still screwed up, but Firefox works, and I'm not seeing mystery icons in my tray anymore. So I think major crisis finally averted. The offer of food or favors for a checkup still applies, though. :) )
Never thought I'd say thank goodness for AOL, but I'm glad my computer had an AOL browser installed. I was able to get that open and download Firefox, which I'm now using instead of IE. (Which isn't a bad thing, anyway. But ugh.)
If someone with a clue about these things wanted to take my computer and see if you can clean it out properly, I would be very appreciative. Appreciative in the form of food, or favors, or, you know, whatever we can negotiate. :)
Lousy evening chez Saxikath. Lots of tension in the jaw... think it's time for a hot bath and an early bed.
(ETA: I think I may have gotten rid of the junk, or at least more of it than I had before. IE's still screwed up, but Firefox works, and I'm not seeing mystery icons in my tray anymore. So I think major crisis finally averted. The offer of food or favors for a checkup still applies, though. :) )
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Date: 2007-11-15 01:56 am (UTC)I'm so sorry about your computer! I had that happen to me a couple of years ago and luckily it was right before my friend gave me a computer he was getting rid of because it was an old, highly at-risk computer and it just fried.
I pretty much only use Firefox now.
Sounds like since you are able to run the spyware screener that you are on the right track and such. When it happened to me, my scanner for such things even got affected!
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