What the heck was I thinking? Ohh yea, thats when this program was actually decent (for the first 2 days it was out). If you are looking for free protection, I'd use AVG Free and regularly update/run...

First you want to start your computer in safe mode (I say that a lot :D).

Repeatedly strike the f8 key while your computer is booting up and select "Safe mode with networking"

Once Safe mode...

Keep running the scans until no results exist for all of those programs

First you should boot into safe mode:
1) Repeatedly strike the f8 key as the computer is starting
2) Select "Safe Mode with Networking"

-Head to: http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/
(in...

Start your system in safe mode (repeatedly press f8 on bootup). Run an antispyware program like spybot or adaware. Remove any problems. See if that helps

You could also purchase some more ram, I'm assuming this is an older machine? Pc-133 RAM is pretty cheap. Check out Ebay or something for it.

Sorry for replying to my own thread so many times :D. Just trying to keep it from dissapearing into the abyss!

Any ideas, people?

Alright so a buddy of mine has tried every anti-spyware and anti-virus scan in the world to find out why it is that when he enables his network connection and checks status it shows that it sends and...

Did you go to housecall's website and run their scan?

Are your anti-virus definitions up-to-date? Update them if they aren't a moderator will probably respond to this, but they are usually busy, so let me see if I can start you off correctly. There are...

Unless you go to www.google.com and search for Microsoft Anti-spyware.

Thats where you would go to search if this link doesn't work
...

Microsoft Anti-spyware? Try ewido and update it. Do a google search for microsoft antispyware download if you really want to get it, otherwise download Ewido, I've heard some good things.

ShaneMcP

There might be a moderator that responds to this, but I would recommend the following steps.

1)Download Microsoft Anti-spyware
2)Update Microsoft Anti-spyware
3)Restart your computer...

Awesome, congrats, and good luck


Shane McP

Sounds good to me :D

lol, I understand how they "pay the bills", and "legit" is a very loose term. Besides, everyone should have spyware protection.

Spyware! Yes you have it! ...probably! Get some anti-spyware programs :D. Try Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Adaware, and Spybot. They are probably the most popular. Microsoft Anti-spyware is my favorite....

If the program isn't from a mainstream company, its probably loaded with spyware. To remove spyware you can use a variety of programs. Adaware and Spybot are popular choices. I would personally...

MS Antispyware didn't help, well that stinks! Well I'm out of ideas :D. You always have the option of reinstalling windows. Have you tried going into add/remove programs and looking for suspicious...

Again I would have to recommend Microsoft Anti-spyware. It truly owns most spyware (this is because microsoft knows all the loopholes in their own software). It's worked better than spybot and...

Welcome to the wonderful world of insane amounts of spyware :D. So my advice is start in safe mode like you did, then open up my computer and type www.mozilla.org/firefox. Then download firefox. Or...

My advice would be get Firefox :P. Seriously though... Also, do you have microsoft antispyware? No one knows security loopholes best than the creators of all the security loopholes. Or should i just...