Computer FULL of Viruses!! HELP!?

3292>a friend of mine dwnldd a lot of porn from Morphius %26amp; his computer has been screwd for over a yr. the original installation disk thingy it comes w/ is missing %26amp; neither one of us r very computer savvy %26amp; Cheap!





What can be done to quick fix, if n e thing!?





THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
Reply:1) Copy all the important data and softwares to a pen drive or external hard drive. borrow a windows cd, format and reinstall the sytsem





2) bring to a computer shop, ask to get rid of the viruses - no reinstallation, no data lose, basically will be 2hours charge.





For DIY, I can only suggest download a free avg and antispyware scan the whole system, but it won't help much as the virus are running on the background.
Reply:There are free anti-virus scanners availble. They work well. I like AVG the best of all the free anti-virus programs.


If you are not willing to spend money it is good to have some kind of anti-virus software





avg


http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1





avast


http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...





Avira AntiVir


http://www.free-av.com/





For a Cost


This is my recommendation for anti-virus. Free are good, but they are not as accurate as the top paid anti-virus software





Top-Tier


Kaspersky


http://www.kasepersky.com





Nod32


http://www.eset.com/











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You may also want to scan for any possible spyware





Here is a list of some free ANTI-SPYWARE programs.


Adaware is probably the most popular.





Adaware


http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw...





Microsoft Defender


http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security...





AVG


http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-spy...





Spyware Terminator 2


http://www.spywareterminator.com/





Spybot Search and Destroy


http://www.safer-networking.org/





SuperAntispyware


http://superantispyware.com/








Anti-Spyware for a cost.


Personally I bought Webroot's Spysweeper, their product is great and well worth the money. Watch Best Buy ads because sometimes it goes on sale for $10 to $15.





Webroot Spysweeper


http://www.webroot.com/consumer/compare/...


PCTools Spyware Doctor


http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/





The Google Pack includes a free starter edition of Spyware Doctor.


http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_inst...





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You can do an online scan for viruses and spyware for free from the major vendors. Some of these require Internet Explorer to run because of Active-X





Trend-Micro


http://housecall.trendmicro.com/


Computer Associates


http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pes...


Panda Software


http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/s...


Symantec Security Check


http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/?lang...


Mcafee Free Scan


http://us.mcafee.com/root/catalog.asp?ca...


Kaspersky Scanner


http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner


Microsoft Protection Scanner


http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/cente...


F-Secure


http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols...


BitDefender


http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html


NOD32


http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/index.php











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McAfee has a free site-advisor tool that helps you prevent going to websites that may be dangerous.


http://www.siteadvisor.com/





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Also make sure you have some kind of firewall software running.





Free Personal Firewall Software


Most free firewalls are stripped down so you purchase their licensed product.





Windows Firewall which is part of Windows XP and Vista





PCTools


http://www.pctools.com/firewall/





ZoneAlarm


http://www.zonealarm.com





Sunbelt Personal firewall


http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Hom...





AShampoo Personal Firewall


http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/product...
Reply:I've had good luck with avast...... find the download on download.com. I find it catches more virus' than AVG did.