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I just recently borrowed my father's laptop, and was very surprised what was going on with it. I was getting a ton of pop-ups, so I downloaded this really cool program for virus scanning/deleting. I have now picked up Trojans: 15 and Adware: 6. I have been scanning since last night throughout all of the day, and have scanned over 150,000 files as of now. Anybody else had this happen?

yea that happened to me.
i had to get geek squad and they pwned all the trojans and viruses

Yeah, 2 System restores for me. It just took forever to scan. By the way the program is Avast!

Its awesome. Try it out if ya need

wait, the way you said it made it sound like you downloaded Avast and thats what gave you all the trojans etc.

Ya, someone in my family had (me woops!) downloaded a prog and we had norten 04… Just reinstalled windows, it was good

well, my father always tell me i need to be carefull for what i download on my laptop. But once i needed to virusscan his computer, and it was loaded with trojans 0.o

Avast is indeed one of the better programs. I won't say its the best because there may be better that I haven't seen.


Just a word of info on system restores. Almost every virus infects system restore first, so that when you restore the virus is still there. So system restore does nothing.

First you must turn system restore off and delete all of its files to get the virus out. (avast does this for you when it detects a virus)

yea it happened to me before, but now i use Norton.

I like avast! it works great for me.

I use McAfee and never have any problems with my comp. When dowloading A file you arne't sure about (including .class files of scripts, and Peer-2-peer shareware) just scan it with jotti virus scanner (jotti.org).

Norton is the way to go… but it gets annoying when it blocks games

Happened to me once. I just formatted. =D

yeah i had baddd viruses, so i downloaded a program called zonealarm..its sooo good.

Yeah, scares me when I find out that my dads computer is loaded with virus's and he uses it to pay bills online. So im constantly having to check on his computer and removed all the personal info to a flashdrive that cant be accesed to the internet.

I'm sitting on the school computer, must be like 50 trojans on this peice of crap..

If I had 15 trojans, I would probably just format & reinstall. :redface:

geek squad!!!!!! expensive but so usefull haha

I bet your dad's happy!

i have avg and its fit me i guess i never had problems with virus , i use limewire , and bittorent but i havent got a virus ever!

funny, I don't have viruses… I probably should considering I have outdated antivirus lol.
Guess my internet's so slow that viruses can't get in in the first place lol -.-
Either that or something to do with my wireless router having an inbuilt firewall? lol

mcafee owns all

never download those softwares that come in adds such as system doctor they are fake they give u the viruses

use mcafee or a free one that is good is avg norten ain bad but it slows ur pc down like hell

I never had any luck with AVG and Trojans. MCAFEE seems to do alot better