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hondavee4

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hi, this is the second time (3rd now) ive had to write this as the 1st time my pc crashed while posting it,

so here goes

just recently my pc has gone into slow down, i didnt know what it was but things like copy paste into notebook was taking ages

i noticed other things as well were all starting to run very slow, but internet explorer seemed fine,

when i eventually managed to close the slow programs verything speeded up again

i took a look at task manager and again it frooze and the task manager was running at 99%, again close this and it was back to speed

i did a spybot check and half way through avast found a virus which i deleted, and then continued with spybot,

(at this point in the post ie encountered a problem but this time i was ready for it)

all was fine for just 1/2 an hour but then it came back

ive ran a boot up scan and thats found something and i deleted that too

still the problem persists

each time i reboot and run spybot it always finds the same trojan and malware

i delete them but they come back

any ideas?

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Rorschach112

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Please go to the malware forum and follow the instructions at the top....Especially the CLICK HERE.

That will give you several steps that will help you clean up 70 percent of all problems by yourself. If at the end of the process you are still having difficulty--and you may not be-- then post a hijackthis log in THAT forum.
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removed malware advice
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hondavee4

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Especially the CLICK HERE.


sorry mate, especially the what?

ive tried to run one of these programs but it just freezes and wont let me carry on
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Click on it and it directs you to a page

If a step fails do the next one
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tbh mate, i am a little lost with all this, i downloaded a "free" program from one of those links and its scanned my pc and found loads of dodgy worms and trojans but then wanted $39 to remove em

is that normal?
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no thats not normal

Read this link here

http://www.geekstogo...-Log-t2852.html

Everything you need to do is there
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thanks mate, following your advice i downloaded and ran "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware" and that also found a fair few nastys

at the moment my pc is running normal but according to that free program i am still infected with the very high risk Maddis B worm

a quick google check suggests this is not as severe as XoftSpySE claims

ill do another search and see if i can find it


many thanks for your help
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Ignore XoftSpySE, it is a terrible anti-spyware program

If MalwareBytes says your PC is clean, then I wouldn't worry
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