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Help I’ve Been A Victim!
OK so you have been infected, or your computer is acting up? Please post here what your problems are and I will try very hard to find a solution to help you! Other bloggers may post to help as well!
Here is what we need to do first off!
What Os are you running? Ex Windows xp pro Windows 7 vista etc. If your PC is infected Please go and download AVAST You Can download it from Download.net by Going to this url
Before you install PLEASE MAKE SURE you Un-install you old anti virus program! Without doing this you can have your computer crash!
Once you made sure your old anti virus program is gone go and install AVAST! Now when you run it for the first time make sure you update it.
Now goto AVAST control panel by right clicking on the orange icon, Now click Scan Computer, then click Boot time scan, after you do that restart your computer, once it starts Avast will start checking your computer and if it finds a virus it will tell you what to do, just follow the directions.
BTW If you are on a 64 bit Os you will not be able to do a boot time scan, instead just go a head and run a full system scan.
Now once this is done, let me know what if any viruses you found. Please write them down and post them here.
Now go download HiJackThis <—going here —->
Don’t worry this is free and wont harm your computer! Now after you installed it, run it and do a system scan and save to log file, once this is done open the log file and copy what is there and post it here as well, this way I can look through it and tell you if I see any programs that are runing that shouldn’t be!
Once you have done the few steps above we can start to fix your problem. We are only half way there depending on the type of virus you have!
Now it’s your turn to post
lets get this off your comptuer.
Tom

