[pchelpers] Fwd: Re: Harassment

To all those that replied - your help was invaluable.
I am now advert and pop-up free having used Ad-Aware.
SuperAntiSpyware and HijackThis.
Many, many thanks

Eric

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Eric Furman wrote:
> > I feel I have been singled out for incessant harassment!
> >
> > Seriously! I was surfing for an email validator program and
> > suddenly I was assailed by a flood of pop-ups proclaiming
> > that "Your System is Probably Infected With bla-bla-bla"
> > and Security Alerts and the appearance of a "Protection Bar"
> > under my Firefox address bar - that for the life of me won't
> > /can't be deleted or disabled.
> >
> > Also "Adware Popups Detected" and Security Centre "Spyware
> > Threat" and so on!
> >
> > I've been to Settings>Control Panel>Security Center and since
> > I am using Zone Alarm in paid mode, I have turned Firewall off
> > as well as Auto Update. I have AVG installed and monitoring
> > my email.
> >
> > I've done a NoAdware scan and an AVG scan of my entire disk.
> > I don't have a trojan remover. Can anyone recommend one that
> > I could use to scan the HDD?
> >
> >
> > More importantly - please help me rid my machine of whatever
> > is causing all these alerts.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Eric



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