Sunday, December 7, 2008

Who has Antispyware 2009 XP?

If you raised your hand, don't even raise that brow, this is serious crap that kept me off my personal computer for about two weeks. All good crap starts with a happy story, I was looking through some albums to download, and bam! Ac/dc new album (Black Ice) magically turned into Antispyware. How convinient I thought. Specially because my screen refreshed itself, some pop ups with interesting adult websites came up, it was just swell. Not to mention the re-directing of websites and blocking task manager. Slower. Pure crap.

I looked around for some free malware software and I found Spybot S&D. I can't really recommend it, because you have to have tried something to be able to critic it. In my case, the Antispyware 2009 XP (remember, the bad guy in this story) kept blocking the internet even if I plugged the computer directly, so the Spybot could not proceed. Either way I don't think it works well, just off the side prejudism.

I was about ready to give up and do some reseting which would kill any information in my computer, from unbacked up pictures and thousands of melancolic songs, to just amazing times recorded in videos, when I came across this software that said it would remove the unwanted Antispyware 2009 XP(again, the bad guy). I tried it in desesperation, and let me tell you something. First, don't do a Full Scan, it will take hours. Do it if you will leave it on overnight. Second, I did the quick scan, and it took nearly an hour or so when it found the crappy crapness that bugged my poor computer and killed it. I still need to do the full scan but it's great to type this blog with my healthy computer.
The program is downloadable here just click the "Download Now" button, install with defaults, and in your desktop you should have a red box with the letter M icon named "MalwareBytes Anti-Malware", double click it. Click the perform quick scan. And "Scan".

Tell me what you think. Thank you.

2 comments:

. said...

malware is actually the bad stuff that infects computers ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

btw I use AntiVir PE and that works great in picking up on nasties i might accidentally pick up.

http://www.free-av.com/

the only problem with the free version is that it sticks you with nag screen (wanting you to buy the retail version - but this only happens when it downloads updates)

Unknown said...

Go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders.
In the "All or part of the the file name" section, type in "XP Antispyware 2009" file name(s).
To get better results, select "Look in: Local Hard Drives" or "Look in: My Computer" and then click "Search" button.
When Windows finishes your search, hover over the "In Folder" of "XP Antispyware 2009", highlight the file and copy/paste the path into the address bar. Save the file's path on your clipboard because you'll need the file path to delete XP Antispyware 2009 in the following manual removal steps.

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