Hi,
So I accidentally clicked on a pop-up, which I usually never get, the other day and somethign immediately began downloading. My computer restarted immediately and I had SEVERAL adware programs downloaded that I couldn't delete through add-remove programs...so I went to do a system restore. Unfortunately the downloads had reset my restore point to right after they downloaded and reset my computer...wow!
I cleaned my computer up as best I could and eventually deleted teh main programs. Unfortunately I still get a lot of very annoying popups anytime my computer is connected to the internet. I've used the basic spyware and adaware programs that simply don't do anything.
Symptoms: popups that I sometimes can't close. some popups restart windows when I close them (the desktop seems to restart?). with task manager open, I see that every time I get a popup the cpu usage jumps up to around 50% when my computer usually runes at about 2-3%.
any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to fix this before finals week...so anytime before this Wednesday would be amazing.
thanks,
-Isan
So I accidentally clicked on a pop-up, which I usually never get, the other day and somethign immediately began downloading. My computer restarted immediately and I had SEVERAL adware programs downloaded that I couldn't delete through add-remove programs...so I went to do a system restore. Unfortunately the downloads had reset my restore point to right after they downloaded and reset my computer...wow!
I cleaned my computer up as best I could and eventually deleted teh main programs. Unfortunately I still get a lot of very annoying popups anytime my computer is connected to the internet. I've used the basic spyware and adaware programs that simply don't do anything.
Symptoms: popups that I sometimes can't close. some popups restart windows when I close them (the desktop seems to restart?). with task manager open, I see that every time I get a popup the cpu usage jumps up to around 50% when my computer usually runes at about 2-3%.
any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to fix this before finals week...so anytime before this Wednesday would be amazing.
thanks,
-Isan