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Old 12-14-2013, 08:11 AM
 
Location: God's Country
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Judge Judy says that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Just had the PC disinfected from adware, but two weeks later, the adware has returned. It's too expensive to keep having the pros clean it. What do you know about RegCurePro. Thanks.
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Old 12-14-2013, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Berkeley Neighborhood, Denver, CO USA
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When I was a Windows consumer, I used this Ad-Aware Personal Security by Lavasoft - Antivirus and Antispyware software. Shop and bank safely online. - Lavasoft and it worked very well.
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Old 12-14-2013, 04:19 PM
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Are you trying to break your computer? If not, don't install that crap.

If you're having problems, you need to change your personal behavior to avoid needing to have your computer cleaned. Adding some more junk on top of the junk you already caused is just going to make things even worse.
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Old 12-14-2013, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Sector 001
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malwarebytes is what I use for crapware. Highly regarded by many people.
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Old 12-15-2013, 04:49 AM
 
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Regcure is not a malware cleaner, it's a registry cleaner. You should NOT be using a registry cleaner if you can't go through the list of things it wants to clean and tell if you need the items it wants to delete or not. The registry does not need regular cleaning.

Use Malwarebytes and do some research on how to be safer online.
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Old 12-15-2013, 07:40 AM
 
Location: God's Country
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Regcure is not a malware cleaner, it's a registry cleaner. You should NOT be using a registry cleaner if you can't go through the list of things it wants to clean and tell if you need the items it wants to delete or not. The registry does not need regular cleaning.

Use Malwarebytes and do some research on how to be safer online.
The companies that allow these adware outfits to hawk their products/services foster ill-will. I don't mind pop-ups but when the adware affects computer performance, e.g., slow downloads, frozen screens, and complete inability to download an infected web site, I won't buy the product/service being hawked even if I normally would.

During a previous infection, I wasn't able to post at City-Data. The error message read something like: you must have at least one character in the body of the message. Huh? My post contained multiple paragraphs, far more than "one character."
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Old 12-15-2013, 08:29 AM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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The companies that allow these adware outfits to hawk their products/services foster ill-will. I don't mind pop-ups but when the adware affects computer performance, e.g., slow downloads, frozen screens, and complete inability to download an infected web site, I won't buy the product/service being hawked even if I normally would.

During a previous infection, I wasn't able to post at City-Data. The error message read something like: you must have at least one character in the body of the message. Huh? My post contained multiple paragraphs, far more than "one character."
That may have had nothing at all to do with infection. I've had that happen to me when I thought I hit reply but I hit a different button instead. You can get the reply box, but if you get that message next time, scroll all the way to the bottom of that reply box and see what text you missed. Chances are, you wrote in the middle of the post you were quoting, not below it...even though you thought you were.

Do NOT use CCleaner or any of those so called Registry cleaners. All you will do is cause yourself more problems. Oh, they'll clean your registry alright....all the bad AND the good. You do not want that. You don't need it.

Use malwarebytes
SuperAntispyware
Kapersky
even MSE
HitmanPro

That will clean up your problems.

If you have Windows and you use Firefox, use NoScript. Use Peerblock. Use Adblock. And stop going to sites that are questionable. (About dot com is not a good site to visit, as an example.)
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Old 12-15-2013, 09:01 AM
 
Location: God's Country
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OK, now 3 of you guys have suggested Malwarebytes and apparently the pros -- unbeknownst to me until today -- put a copy in the X86 Program Files during the last cleaning so they must give it a thumbs up too. It advises me that the database is outdated by 45 days and asks if I want to update. Guess I'll break down and buy a copy. Thx. for the replies.
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Old 12-15-2013, 09:32 AM
 
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OK, now 3 of you guys have suggested Malwarebytes and apparently the pros -- unbeknownst to me until today -- put a copy in the X86 Program Files during the last cleaning so they must give it a thumbs up too. It advises me that the database is outdated by 45 days and asks if I want to update. Guess I'll break down and buy a copy. Thx. for the replies.
You can't beat the price, $25 for a lifetime license and you get real time monitoring which runs alongside your chosen AV app for additional protection. The free version is good but you must manually update it and scan your system, it does nothing on its own.
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Old 12-15-2013, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Wandering.
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Another vote for MWB.

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OK, now 3 of you guys have suggested Malwarebytes and apparently the pros -- unbeknownst to me until today -- put a copy in the X86 Program Files during the last cleaning so they must give it a thumbs up too. It advises me that the database is outdated by 45 days and asks if I want to update. Guess I'll break down and buy a copy. Thx. for the replies.
You can manually update it from the update button, and run the free version.

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You can't beat the price, $25 for a lifetime license and you get real time monitoring which runs alongside your chosen AV app for additional protection. The free version is good but you must manually update it and scan your system, it does nothing on its own.
Agreed, especially if you have had problems more than once. It's even more important IMO if you run XP, and plan on keeping it beyond it's end of life in a few months.
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