How Do I Stop Adware?

[Muppetsdownunder]

Sometimes things cannot be removed with adaware or spybot because they are currently running on the system. The programs usually offer to scan at next system startup which is a good idea because it does a full scan before the bad spyware gets a chance to start up. If you are having trouble getting rid of things its often a good idea to start the computer in whats called "safe mode" it starts the computer with very minimal things running and allows a proper scan for viruses etc if you have viruses on the computer stopping the virus/spyware software from working properly.

 

[Muppetsdownunder]

Just got through with the weekly automatic scan...I'm still clean!!!

A good way to stay clean is to to use the free mozilla firefox browser, its great and free and has great popup blocking.
also, its a good idea to stay away from any websites used for porn, gambling and that kind of thing. Those websites are more likely to contain bad spyware software.

 

[anythingmuppet]

I have Firefox and popups still show...

 

[Muppetsdownunder]

They sometimes do to me also, but thats just because they use a different type of popup.

 

[D'Snowth]

Odd. My computer's been acting funky lately...it's getting slower, crashing alot more, and freezing. I did another manual virus scan, but nothing turned up, HOWEVER, I now notice I have these files named "***embly". What's up with that?

 

[Muppetsdownunder]

well, to be safe, update and scan your computer with adaware and spybot. Theres also new bad stuff being created to infect unprotected computers all the time, some are even undetectable.

 

[Buck-Beaver]

You may have to run the scan and do the uninstall in Windows Safe Mode. Sometimes that is the only way to remove certain types of Spyware/Adware.

If you were asking how much Spybot will make you pay to remove it, nothing. Spybot is totally free (although they accept donations). It sounds like you had the scam where you're supposed to pay to remove anti-virus software that has infected your computer. I think usually this is done by affliates of the company making the anti-virus software without the knowledge or consent of the company making the anti-virus software.