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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 12:26:27 GMT -5
The software you use to view the internet, that is to go to each web page or url, is called a browser. The major browsers are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Each is able to surf the web. You can run them simultaneously. They all work in a similar manner, but have different peculiarities and options. Most Windows PCs are shipped with at least the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. If you have it, when you begin having a problem while using the Chrome browser, bring up Internet Explorer and see if you're also having the same problem when you surf with that browser. Sometimes a virus infects a PC's basic system. Sometimes only the browser. A program that takes you to addresses it wants rather than what you want is infected with what's called a hijack virus. The good news is a hijack virus normally infects only one browser and you can use another browser while figuring out how to get rid of the virus on the hijacked browser. Hope that made sense. yes that help greatly |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 12:34:38 GMT -5
Alan, if you open avast and click on "scan" you can use the drop down menu to the right to schedule a "boot-time" scan. When it asks of you want to restart, just click "yes". It will scan everything before the PC boots. The screen will be black and a host of crap will pass by, occasionally it will find something and ask you what to do, have it delete whatever file(s) it finds. At the end it will reboot the PC. Go on from there as usual and see what happens. It is a MUCH more thorough scan and may find something that it would normally miss after the PC is fully booted up. * As an afterthought, be warned, it will take a bit of time.  Ralph I did that because Avast suggested it after I did a full scan. Right now I am not getting the popups. When the popups start each one will flash several different attempts to get into my PC. Last time one popup contained 42 different url's. It happens really fast. Last night I went into my recipe documents to add some and as soon as I opened the document file the popups started. I did a quick scan and nothing was found but I turned off my computer waited a minute then turned it back on again. Now no popups occurring. I did a boot scan and a full scan and ran spybot and malwarebytes and neither of them says it finds anything. I will try what Dave suggested and see what happens. Avast is blocking all of them getting into my PC and alerts me that an attempt has just taken place. I have a feeling that nothing is in the PC. The alerts popping up every 10 seconds is crazy. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 19:26:35 GMT -5
All I had to do was turn on silent/gaming mode .Nothing went through but by golly those PUP's are a pain.
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Post by chris on Mar 27, 2015 18:56:01 GMT -5
When I bought my iPad a couple months ago at Best Buy it came along with a 6 month free subscription to Kaspersky. I kept getting emails from Best Buy to download the antivirus so finally I did just to get them off my back. I downloaded it but didn't run the program mostly because I am running Avast (on WinXP) and have had no problems and so figured leave well enough alone. Then I started getting emails reminding me of the program. So how do they know if I'm running it or not. Best Buy Spyware???
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