Comments | ivy_chan: TECHNOLOGY HATES ME

ivy_chan

TECHNOLOGY HATES ME

May 21, 2011 17:42

It seems as though my laptop is infested with Malware. It hides my icons and folders, it sends up constant warnings of disc drive failure, and it keeps trying to sell me some upgrade for $80. Also, I installed Norton 360 and it ate that shit like nothing. So, fuck computers. If my super geek mom can't get it working, there's ANOTHER computer I lose ( Read more... )

rant

Comments 12

lindentreeisle May 21 2011, 22:34:30 UTC

Fuck Norton, man. In all seriousness though, have you tried software specifically tailored to spyware/malware?

Malwarebytes is good. I also recommend Adaware, which is an well-known name in the field for good reason, and has a free version.

ivy_chan May 24 2011, 05:10:22 UTC

I had my friend walk me through eliminating the thing, restored my computer to an earlier state, and then uploading avast and Norton again. Hopefully it's good now.

lindentreeisle May 24 2011, 09:43:21 UTC

Oh good. :D

aflightoffancy May 21 2011, 23:32:03 UTC

Try the free ones, Avast and etc. Have your mom burn them to disc, then install them. How did Norton AV get eaten? Did it prevent installation somehow? Disallow updates? Those are important.

Otherwise, your mom could try weeding it out with processexplorer.exe. She's probably heard of it, it's a very, very fancy task manager, very, very useful.

omnicat May 22 2011, 00:11:52 UTC

*wince*

*hugs?*

/eloquence

ivy_chan May 24 2011, 05:10:44 UTC

T_T It was HORRIBLE. NOTHING BUT SILENCE AND BLACKNESS.

ivy_chan May 24 2011, 05:12:23 UTC

ALSO, IT KEPT SENDING ME POP-UPS.

scdsam May 22 2011, 00:31:11 UTC

I used to have (variable) luck with the free AVG malware scans. The only problem is that it's an ever-updating system so if your computer's been stalling out on processing it will only probably make it worse :/

Best of luck though!

ivy_chan May 24 2011, 05:11:28 UTC

Thanks. I uploaded avast on to this after restoring it to an earlier version after eliminating bits of the virus from the system. Everything seems to be working so far!

lvsinsanity May 22 2011, 19:26:16 UTC

AVG and Spybot (Spybot is AMAZING for malware search/destroying it).

ivy_chan May 24 2011, 05:11:56 UTC

Spybot sounds like a good one, too. I feel like I should get a lot. T_T

lvsinsanity May 24 2011, 05:54:17 UTC

It doesn't slow the computer down and at the end, gives you an option of what to delete.