i am very upset...i was researching a medication on google and a porn site attached itself to my computer!! I do not know how to take it off for good. I am so upset..pls help. I don't seem to be able to delete history
How do I remove a porn site that attached itself when I was looking up a medication on google! I am so upset. It has made itself my main page when I turn on my computer and I cannot delete my history in firefox. Pls help... tks Jane from virginia
How do I remove a porn site that attached itself when I was looking up a medication on google! I am so upset. It has made itself my main page when I turn on my computer and I cannot delete my history in firefox. Pls help... tks Jane from virginia
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked