Im getting a popup window all the time now. It says something about installing software called activity monitor. There is no info on the company that its from. It just pops up when the computer starts up. I went into search and typed activity monitor and it came up with 24 different programs. How would a expert computer user go about deleting this program?
I use a free program called "Autoruns", it conveniently shows everything that's running on startup, even in the registry, and lets you simply remove a check mark if you don't want it running anymore. Then, since this is really just bad adware, you can go to it's location and delete it if you want to. I use it all the time to stop Quacktime from starting up on the next boot after I've been to a site that uses Quacktime for videos.
Well, I ran ad aware, california associates spyware program, malwarebytes, and Avira. Nothing works. I cant remember when I exactly got this problem so i dont wont to turn windows back. Any other suggestions?
In Startup box look for a program like the one you have & turn it off.
Also a neat trick, visit MS & install IE 8. As you do that it does lots of system checks first & cleans your system.
Xnarg
Senior Member - 5K
posted: Jul. 9, 2009 @ 12:17p
Run Hijackthis. Copy the log and paste it into one of the automated hijackthis analyzers. Follow the instructions to remove suspected malware. Use more than one analyzer site, they don't all detect the same things.
Run Windows Defender. If you don't have it already, get it from Microsoft.
After you do this, try a free online scan such as Panda.
the best way to firmly delete a program is to click on "run" then type:cmd.exe, then type "format C:" you then will have no more issues with THAT program.
BTW that CA antivirus is the worst one on the market IMO.
They needed to do something. I ran Symantec till 2005 when I realized that even though the update process said everything was peachy, I checked the version number and it hadn't updated the definitions in three month. The damn thing left me vulnerable for three months and didn't give me any indication till I went in and checked manually. Support was useless, they could barely speak English much less help me with my issue, totally clueless. I'll never buy another one of their products.
Yep. The new Norton 2009 is not your father's Norton Utilities. I, as well as every professional reviewer that I've come across so far, highly recommend you giving it a try. Small, fast, lite, and damn good at what it does.
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