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Once upon a time I had a really nasty problem like that. Actually it took me a couple of months to figure out how to remove and I got well acquainted with it. Its name was nail. And I tried antivirus, anti-spyware, separate programs made just to remove it. None of them worked. I eventually found a complicated how to remove guide somewhere on the internet and I had to go through various files on my computer and manually delete a bunch of things. That was unpleasant, but I finally got it removed.



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I haven't had a virus this bad since I lived with my mom. She had 4 or 5 different casino programs on her computer, and each one came with all kinds of spyware and malware, and I kept telling her it was the casinos and she wouldn't believe me. But it was mostly just pop-ups and slowdown, and LavaSoft Ad-Aware took care of it.

So... after I ran MalWare Guard and found 0 infected memory processes, 74 infected registry items, and 115 infected files/folders, I rebooted, and ran the longer advanced scan, and went to sleep. I woke up, and it found 0 infected meory processes, 8 infected registry items, and 8 infected files/folders. I removed them all.

Then I followed the Micro Antivirus shortcut on my desktop and deleted the folder it was in.

Then I rebooted again.

Micro Antivirus and the billion pop-ups are gone. Now there is just one pop-up every 4-5 minutes, but my timestamp for every file for every thing (created, modified, etc.) is VIRUS ALERT!

I'm gonna do another scan in Safe Mode now and leave for school.

Thanks everybody.





 

These are my pop-ups.

 

 

When I either left-click or right-click the Start button, the Run option is no longer there. How else can I find this msconfig to boot in Safe Mode?

 

 



Kaspersky is your best option. Download a trial version and it will clear out most of your viruses/malware. I had a REALLY bad one the other day and Kaspersky was the only one that found it.

Other options are:

Adware
Spybot
AVG anti-virus
Webroot Spysweeper (one of the best, but unfortunately no trial)



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just restart normally, then press f8 after the pc is starting to load again...
You will see the options to start on Safe Mode.

I really recommend download Spybot, this is free and immunize your PC..
Also try this this works wonderful:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic17297.html



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Use this instead of task manager:
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer.zip
Find the shitty processes, make a note of where they run from, kill them and the delete them.



I use AVAST.



I did the F8 to get into safe mode, ran a deep advanced scan in safe mode, and this time it found only 6 infected registry keys. I removed them all and rebooted, and now there's only 1 or 2 pop-ups which aren't as annoying, but there's something fishy going on and everything is super slow and videos are too slow to watch.

I'm gonna try the Process Explorer that MisterShine suggested.



I used Avira Antivir Premium (1 month free) to get rid of my shitty virus because it pretty much prevented me from installing any other antivirus programs. It was recommended to me by my friend who is software engineer. I'm not sure what other people's experience with this software is but it fixed my problem immediately and also isn't a resource hog.