What to do when you think computer is infected from spyware ?

  19 Feb 2008 by ReviewSaurus | ,

I’m sure that when your computer starts acting strangely, gives pop-ups, strange errors, messages and starts to run sluggishly then you, yourself come to know that your computer has been infected from a spyware.

Well, that’s sad but how can you get rid of them ? You’ve tried all the best software but still that that problem is still on your computer and it’s just not going away!

Well, I would like to ask the answer to this question from my tech-savvy readers. What would you do in such a situation, which software do you prefer or what steps you take.

Not only this post itself can be a good resource for other people but I’m sure if we all will share our tips, then we all will learn something or the other.

I’ll post my tips in the next post or will update this one only, but before that I would like to know your responses too!

4 Responses so far

  1. Doug Woodall February 19, 2008 7:43 pm

    I usually recommend “Hijack This”. For those who need help with it, I tell em to upload the log results to a good help Forum. One great Forum is MajorGeeks. They are great people there.
    The great thing about this scenario is that you learn alot during the resolution, ending in a more educated user that is better able to stay safe online.

  2. Vaibhav February 19, 2008 8:21 pm

    What i do most of the time is, look for some applications in task manager which you think need not run. look for its path its running from. boot in safe mode, then try to delete these files, if unable to delete, then go to msconfig, and stop the application to boot, as my exp says, that most of the spywares are in startup.
    Look for some folders in temporary internet folders, apart from this, the hidden files in users folders in XP. These are some areas you can look for.

  3. Madhur Kapoor February 19, 2008 11:25 pm

    i usually scan my system with norton and spybot .

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