virus question

tommymac · 01-23-2011, 03:09 PM

I had fired up my work laptop that had those odd antivirus programs on it i had mentione d awhile back. I was using it at the hospital and the desktop icons including a few porn sites that kept popping up stopped appearing them after windows loaded about 50 updates. the computer was actualy working fine for the next few days.

SO today i fire it up and so far so good but then the windows I was working in suddenly closed and this virus scan popped up. it took me to this webpage for protectep.com and wanted me ot buy their software. I did a google search on my slower but safe puter and saw its some sort of hijack program.

I found several sites describing how to remove the program, but they all say to be careful in removing it as you can crash your system.

Any of you experts have any advice, or should i take itto a pro to fix it. problem withthe vrus protection is its some corporate edition. I tried putting my nortons on it and it wouldnt allow me to upload it. I am hesitant to take it back to work because those porn sites that kept popping up.

01-23-2011, 03:09 PM	#1
tommymac Moto GP Star Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,022	virus question I had fired up my work laptop that had those odd antivirus programs on it i had mentione d awhile back. I was using it at the hospital and the desktop icons including a few porn sites that kept popping up stopped appearing them after windows loaded about 50 updates. the computer was actualy working fine for the next few days. SO today i fire it up and so far so good but then the windows I was working in suddenly closed and this virus scan popped up. it took me to this webpage for protectep.com and wanted me ot buy their software. I did a google search on my slower but safe puter and saw its some sort of hijack program. I found several sites describing how to remove the program, but they all say to be careful in removing it as you can crash your system. Any of you experts have any advice, or should i take itto a pro to fix it. problem withthe vrus protection is its some corporate edition. I tried putting my nortons on it and it wouldnt allow me to upload it. I am hesitant to take it back to work because those porn sites that kept popping up.