Hi everybody,not been on the site for a while as my pc has been in for a refit this is all due to the spyware bugs getting in to my system there was 15 of the little blighters in my computer even though I have got norton anti virus on my computer they still got in so a bit of advice for you all make sure your anti virus is up todate other wise you will be shelling out some money to get it fixed it as just cost me £150 to have my computer back up and running again it would have cost me a damm sight more if my best mates son had'nt fixed the problems as he works for a computer shop and I have been going in there for over two years so it didnt cost me what it would have,also as anybody miss me since I have been writing on the forum just though I would ask.Hope everybody is in fine fettle and I should be back on the forum more now.

£150 bloody hell!
What did the bugs do.. chomp your motherboard or summat?
Lol!

Another piece of advice mate- ditch Nortons.
Its ****e.

Get yourself Nod32 or F-Prot for viruses and also Agitnum Outpost for your firewall and see the difference.

Welcome back though!!

thanks for that information I will be going to see my mate on saturday so I will ask him how much it will be to have it fitted I always thought that norton was the best anti virus to have on a pc shows how wrong you can be where we would we be without peoples help like you ? cheers mate you are a gud un.

£150 to get shot of 15 pieces pf spyware? I think they saw you coming a mile off mate.

Spyware, adware, trojans, worms, virus's they've all come up in the ask an expert section of the forum. If you do a SEARCH not only will you find that you're not the only person to of suffered these annoying things but very helpfully you'll find links to free downloads of virus scans, free anti virus and several downnloads that deals with spyware and adware. For myself I particularily liked a link that fointed me at cwshredder as this dealt with a couple of annoying problems.[B]

Originally posted by slh73
£150 to get shot of 15 pieces pf spyware? I think they saw you coming a mile off mate.

I was thinking the exact same thing there mate!

Ad-Aware is a decent spyware shifter as well.

Seriously though.. Nortons dosent catch the main new viruses that come out- I've had quite a few slip thru the anti-virus with Norton 2004 and they have proper cocked my machine up to the extent that I had to format windows.

Nod32- you dont have no trouble at all.. it just sits there quietly waiting to pounce on owt that troubles it.

Top stuff.

Originally posted by ANGELUS
I was thinking the exact same thing there mate!

Damn yeah, & that was the "discount for a friend"...

Just out of interest, which computer shop was this?

Originally posted by bigkev
Hi everybody,not been on the site for a while as my pc has been in for a refit this is all due to the spyware bugs getting in to my system there was 15 of the little blighters in my computer even though I have got norton anti virus on my computer they still got in so a bit of advice for you all make sure your anti virus is up todate other wise you will be shelling out some money to get it fixed it as just cost me £150 to have my computer back up and running again it would have cost me a damm sight more if my best mates son had'nt fixed the problems as he works for a computer shop and I have been going in there for over two years so it didnt cost me what it would have,also as anybody miss me since I have been writing on the forum just though I would ask.Hope everybody is in fine fettle and I should be back on the forum more now.

Hi there, sorry to hear about your troubles. Just wanted to say that has to be the longest sentence I have ever read in my life... I almost ran out of breath reading it! :hihi:

He must have the "anti punctuation" spybot...

PCWorld* prolly charge less than that, AND they'll have a scout round your disk looking for dubious content at no extra charge.

£150? I'm in the wrong business here. I removed £30 worth of tracking cookies from my own PC last night.





*The axis of evil

I learn't yesterday that a friend-of-a-friend bought a new computer from BigW and it took 2 hours for someone to remove all the virus's !. This is on a 'Brand New' computer that has never been used! :suspect:

BigW or BigKev?

;-)

Originally posted by LesMcQueen
BigW or BigKev?

;-)

LMAO :hihi:

Although it does raise the question of how new your parts really are whe you buy a new pc from 'substandard' outlets?.

£150!!!! No wonder he's your friend :hihi:

To all you people out there what I forgot to mention was that it cost me £ 150 to have my computer sorted out but in the process I have had my graphic card changed.I have had a new power pack installed I have had a complete refit on my windows my pc is now brand new all for £ 150 where can you buy a pc for £ 150 not at pc world you cant. I will never go in pc world as they dont know what they are doing in there,I have just bought a epson R300 printer for £ 90 brand new in pc world the same printer costs £ 149.99 I dont deal in the big computer stores I go to the small outlets where I get a good deal.Take the ink for my printer pc world will charge me £100 for the set as it takes 6 cartridges my small outlet where I go charges me £ 25 for the set big difference I would say so you can keep your big stores there is other places than pc world to go too.

Well in that case it makes more sense now bigkev ;).
You only mentioned the viruses before though :suspect:. It looks like you paid nothing to get rid of any viruses and instead just got charged (not much)for the hardware you had fitted :thumbsup:

Originally posted by vidster
I learn't yesterday that a friend-of-a-friend bought a new computer from BigW and it took 2 hours for someone to remove all the virus's !. This is on a 'Brand New' computer that has never been used! :suspect:

Are you implying that BigW installs viruses on its PCs or that it sells 2nd hand PCs advertised as being new?? If so, be careful of committing libel.

Diskdepot.co.uk are/were doing a full set of R200/R300 compatible cartridges for £6.99 (6 cartridges)

That's a saving of £93.01 on Epson originals, that is.
;-)

I'd be curious to see an itemisation of what you had done though.

Originally posted by t020
Are you implying that BigW installs viruses on its PCs or that it sells 2nd hand PCs advertised as being new?? If so, be careful of committing libel.

I can remember reading that if someone buys a new computer and the HD (for example) develops a problem, the owner will return the computer and can demand a new one be fitted. The supposedly damaged HD can then be tested for faults and if none are found, the HD can be wiped clean and used again.

Now don't get me wrong, i'm not saying BigW purposely installs viruses or indeed sells 2nd hand computers as new ones, but there are thousands of these HD's etc...lying around these factories. You don't really think they get thrown in the bin do you?.

Originally posted by vidster
You don't really think they get thrown in the bin do you?.


I couldn't possibly comment. :P

Originally posted by bigkev
Hi everybody,not been on the site for a while as my pc has been in for a refit this is all due to the spyware bugs getting in to my system there was 15 of the little blighters in my computer even though I have got norton anti virus on my computer they still got in so a bit of advice.......

Course they did, its Norton ANTI-VIRUS, it is designed to catch VIRUSES not Spyware. Spyware is something entirely different: If it was 15 tracking cookies its harmless enough, granted you probably don't want people to know which webpages you go to, but then its not exactly going to kill your computer off.