Mal Ware Attack

[mike farrellParticipant @mikefarrell21522]

Hi All An early warning to all ,I have had a serious Mal Ware Attack on my computer in the last 24 hours .I have no idea where it came from

I look at items on Ebay and spend most of my time reading threads so hope its not happening to others.

I have used Spy Hunter to remove it .

Early indications you may be infected are a slowing down of downloads or programmes equally slowing down .

Please be awareMichael

[mike farrellParticipant @mikefarrell21522]

Drepol

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

It would help to know what the name of the malware was.

Note that SpyHunter has, let us say, a chequered history of providing false positives and even now does not have an open testing regime which would give me confidence in its accuracy. System slowing may be for a variety of reasons, including simply downloading too much adware.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

I agree with Dodgy about spurious virus checkers, some of them are worse than the viruses and malware they are supposed to protect you from.

I use AVG and would wholeheartedly recommend it as the best on the market, even the free version is better than most of the competitors. AVG will defrag and clean up your system as well as guard against ALL malware.

Paul

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

I use AVG, Spyware Blaster, Malwarebytes.

I also use a free program to clean up the computer(e.g. Temp internet files, cookies. delete bin) it's called CCleaner.

Also cleans up the windows register.

It's blonde proof.

Four/five clicks and it's all done!!!

You can go into options/settings/secure deletion and change to secure deletion and set to 35 pass.

It's slower but a higher clean up.

I do not back changes in the register clean up and never had a computer fall over using it this way in over five years.

A hard drive defrag and you computer is running far better.

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