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Critical System Error???

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  • 13-09-2006 2:16pm
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    connundrum
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    Sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum, but I don't know where else to seek help. I got this message popping up last night, and it constantly pops up ever 2 minutes now..

    'Sytem detected virus activities. They may cause critical system failure. Please use antimalware software to clean and protect your system from parasite programs.'

    How do I clean this from my laptop? It literally appeared last night and I have no clue as to how to get rid of it.

    NB. I don't have any virus protection (norton/macafee etc) do to a certain lack of funds at the mo. This will be sorted at the end of the month.


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    NutJob
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    http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
    http://www.safer-networking.org/
    http://update.microsoft.com

    Start there post back if theres anything not removed


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Looks like that one that asks you to pay 'anti-spyware' software when its really more spyware. The above should do the trick, make sure to scan in safe mode.


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    Black Swan
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    connundrum wrote:
    NB. I don't have any virus protection (norton/macafee etc) do to a certain lack of funds at the mo. This will be sorted at the end of the month.
    Yikes! There are free AV programmes. Check out the sticky on this site for a list of them. There are also numerous free anti-spyware/malware programmes that are quite good. Spybot, Ad-Aware SE, Spyware Blaster, Windows Defender, all of these being compatible with each other, too.

    The problem you seem to be experiencing sounds like a virus/spyware/malware problem. Someone wants to download something nasty?


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