24-02-2013, 03:07 PM
Hi,
At last my computer is once again squeaky clean and hopefully will remain so.
Our friends Guy and Clare visited us yesterday and as Guy is a wiz on computers it didn't take long before Guy was teaching me a few tricks and one important thing Guy kindly did for me was to download a free anti-spyware program called "sophos" which he uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos
Sophos is now fully installed after Guy set it up for Win7 64bit and it declares my computer is clean which is expected after a full hard drive wipe but its good to know.
The hard drive wipe and re-install of Win7 only took about two hours but then another couple of hours were spent installing programs I use; it's amazing how many upgrades were installed and I don't mean the odd one or two; it had two sessions alone installing 100 upgrades plus other smaller batches but I think it must finally be up to date.
This morning I copied all the links you have kindly posted into a notebook for future reference because of the constant virus threat.
Snap.do caused me considerable frustration and refused to be eradicated even though I ran a number of programs including AVG and Malwarebytes; the only program which located it was Virgin Media Security and I was unable to erase it but at least Virgin blocked it warning me of a "Dangerous page". I'm just glad to be clear of it.
Thanks again for your splendid help.
Kind regards, Col.
At last my computer is once again squeaky clean and hopefully will remain so.
Our friends Guy and Clare visited us yesterday and as Guy is a wiz on computers it didn't take long before Guy was teaching me a few tricks and one important thing Guy kindly did for me was to download a free anti-spyware program called "sophos" which he uses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophos
Sophos is now fully installed after Guy set it up for Win7 64bit and it declares my computer is clean which is expected after a full hard drive wipe but its good to know.
The hard drive wipe and re-install of Win7 only took about two hours but then another couple of hours were spent installing programs I use; it's amazing how many upgrades were installed and I don't mean the odd one or two; it had two sessions alone installing 100 upgrades plus other smaller batches but I think it must finally be up to date.
This morning I copied all the links you have kindly posted into a notebook for future reference because of the constant virus threat.
Snap.do caused me considerable frustration and refused to be eradicated even though I ran a number of programs including AVG and Malwarebytes; the only program which located it was Virgin Media Security and I was unable to erase it but at least Virgin blocked it warning me of a "Dangerous page". I'm just glad to be clear of it.
Thanks again for your splendid help.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
