[pchelpers] Re: Harassment

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
Hmmm, how about Spywareblaster (one I swear by)? It prevents spyware 
from working.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Adaware 6 or SE
http://www.lavasoft.com/
These two will clobber a lot of that stuff, and they are free.
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