Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

[5corpio]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

anyone know of add on for firefox, to unblock international connnections? or hiding your Proxy and IP so they don't know which country your connecting from?

heard about 'Hola', but can't find as an add-on from firefox.

[The Tech Clerk]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Me too, tech. When littlun somehow managed to lock up her laptop with some malware that took over the whole pc and loaded a fake "police are watching you" page, malwarebytes was my saviour! Without that, the pc just wouldn't work!

She was convinced she'd done something wrong, bless her. I wonder how many people pay "the fine" that the "police" page loaded in order to fix and use their machine?

Remember that one a while back ago, I too used it to clear the mentioned above as Spybot and the others proved useless.

[diddlydee]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Me too, tech. When littlun somehow managed to lock up her laptop with some malware that took over the whole pc and loaded a fake "police are watching you" page, malwarebytes was my saviour! Without that, the pc just wouldn't work!

She was convinced she'd done something wrong, bless her. I wonder how many people pay "the fine" that the "police" page loaded in order to fix and use their machine?

[The Tech Clerk]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Malwarebytes I use

[Turboman]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

This might be useful--ComputerActive IIssue 433 1-14October 2014



I'm having trouble getting rid of Ad-Protect

Didn't know about that free Kapesky software (I'm with Barclays)--will give it a whirl before I try those in the magazine

[cymruambyth]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

eureka it's working again. It must be magic or voodoo because it defeats any logic that I know!

Thank you for all you help.

[cymruambyth]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Thanks I'll look after work.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

It doesn't need to connect no. It should have a default Windows driver that'll give wireless. So I'd suggest you need to add a new wireless network

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Try and read this -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870702

[cymruambyth]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Sorry, I'm back again .

i have uninstalled my broken wireless adapter and rebooted my laptop and and and I'm still waiting! Is it supposed to be connected to the internet to reinstall?
an embarrassed thank you!

[cymruambyth]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Thank you, that's really helpful. I hadn't pressed any buttons.....done that in the past and had it pointed out by a smirking teenager!

This appears to be intermittent (happened 3 times yesterday) so I will play after work.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

It's one of 3 things. Can't be anything else, logically (he says)!

Ok first - check you've not pressed a button or slid a switch on the side to turn wifi on/off? If not then test a hard connection.

To do this, just take your laptop to your router/hub and unplug the Ethernet "in" cable and plug it directly into your laptop. You may not notice any lights so try and open google or something. If you get online then you know that's it your wireless adaptor.

So, assuming it's your wireless adaptor - just reset it as follows:

To uninstall and then reinstall the wireless network adapter follow these steps:

1. Open Device Manager by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Device Manager.* If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

2. In Device Manager, locate the device under Network adapters. Right click it and choose Uninstall.

3. Say OK to the popup and reboot your PC. The device will reinstall and should reset to default settings.

The above is your main 3 actions/options/causes/fixes.

[cymruambyth]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I seem to have lost the ability to go online with my laptop! The green light is orange and won't go green!

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

With windows, what do I need to do? My laptop is playing games. AVG have told me that my protection ended on 1 November and my internet access keeps crashing.
do I need to delete AVG first?

Hit start -> control panel -> add remove programs -> avg - click remove/uninstall.

Or go into the product settings and uninstall it directly. Yes you can only have one anti virus protection running at any one time as another flags that as malware and vice versa.

[Enforcer]

Re: Free Spyware, Malware & Virus Protection

Nice and simple. Microsoft Security Essentials. As Niddy says at start of this post. Free, updates all the time, most importantly, IT WORKS!