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Postby aleksander6 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:28 am

I went into a website of "questionable content" and I'm running without any anti-virus and now I'm getting weird pop-ups.

I read somewhere that you can "restore" your PC (not formatting the C drive, just restoring) settings.

Could anybody help me?
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Postby warhol » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:38 am

System Restore
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Postby aleksander6 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:43 am

Where is that?
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Postby warhol » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:51 am

All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
http://fof-empire.myminicity.com/tra
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Postby aleksander6 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:54 am

Okay, and if I restore it to, say, two days ago (when my computer was working perfectly fine) will it delete the stuff i've downloaded in these two days? I don't want to lose my FoF songs.
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Postby warhol » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:02 am

Too bad then
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Postby el nini » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:50 am

It won't delete any files. It will only restore the registry to what it was 2 days ago. So in all likelyhood, your adware will probably come back again.
Its just like life. Quite interesting in parts, but no substitute for the real thing.
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Postby aleksander6 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:28 am

I just did the restore thing and I no longer get any pop ups and my computer is running fast again!

Thank you so much, warhol!
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Postby warhol » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:37 am

Remember

your adware will probably come back again.
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Postby HeruLuingul » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:10 am

aleksander6 wrote:I went into a website of "questionable content" and I'm running without any anti-virus and now I'm getting weird pop-ups.

*singing*
You got a porno virus, you got a porno virus, na na!
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Postby mmsven » Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:19 am

Virus scanners don't get rid of adware. Get Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D. And stop downloading porn off of websites it's spyware city.
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Postby tibiazak » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:23 pm

lol! very sympathetic, aren't you Heru?
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Postby HeruLuingul » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:35 pm

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Postby whatakevin » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:48 pm

yea, get ad-aware, its free...

why of course... to restore settings, u delete fretsonfire.ini
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Postby nobby76 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:30 pm

As MMSVEN said get. Ad aware, spybot S&D, maybe AVG antivirus ( its free), and another good prog to have is Xray PC, it will scan for all processes running on your computer, ( even the ones that task manager wont display) with those 4 programs you cant go far wrong, and most of them have a free version. My machine is DL allmost 24/7 coz i have a 4Mb cable line, and i use all them progs mentioned.. and to be honest i dont think ive had a virus and/or spy/adware in over 8-9 months
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