-- Posted by luxy at 11:32 am on Aug. 20, 2006 my pc says i have a virus, i have norton anti virus, but that is not the program that is telling me i have the virus- it is this- i think its a program like quakespy or quakevirus im not sure. web pages lad really slow, and all, i havent downloaded anything, and i want to get rid of it, i have gone add/remove programs and removed all the things i didnt have before. please help -- Posted by rosebud at 11:34 am on Aug. 20, 2006 did you click on that and it downloaded a 'virus scanner' for you and all of a sudden you have 6 of every category? yeah get avg (http://www.grisoft.com), its free and works -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 11:34 am on Aug. 20, 2006 What is that program? -- Posted by luxy at 11:35 am on Aug. 20, 2006 i know i am double posting but it wont let me press any logos on any site http://www.spywarequake.com/?aff=247  is the site it links me to -- Posted by janis at 11:35 am on Aug. 20, 2006 I suggest you to download something like Ad-Aware (don't know is it free) It's one of the lava soft progs which deletes spyware like you have got, normal anti virus progs doesn't help to delete spyware I'll try to find for you that ad aware -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 11:35 am on Aug. 20, 2006 Try Avast anti-virus, Its a Good software.you can get that for free from here > http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html first you have to register and get the Activation key[they will Email you the Key#],after that download >Install > Run the Avast anti-virus >finally activate it by the Activation key. After the Installation is done Run Avast and scan your PC. And Try AVG Anti-Virus too many people say thats good,I've never used that but try that.Any how Avast is the best.Im using Avast. -- Posted by luxy at 11:36 am on Aug. 20, 2006 Quote: from rosebud at 7:34 pm on Aug. 20, 2006 did you click on that and it downloaded a 'virus scanner' for you and all of a sudden you have 6 of every category? yeah get avg (http://www.grisoft.com), its free and works why, what is it? -- Posted by janis at 11:37 am on Aug. 20, 2006 Try better this http://lavasoft.com/ -- Posted by nycboy9114 at 11:37 am on Aug. 20, 2006 thats called spyware or adware. and its a totally different scanner -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 11:38 am on Aug. 20, 2006 I think its some kind of a pop up, but how can a pop up make you PC slow.   -- Posted by luxy at 11:39 am on Aug. 20, 2006 NO!!!! i have norton, its good, but this IS the virus, i cant get rid -- Posted by andrewcool at 11:39 am on Aug. 20, 2006 and go to run, msconfig and make sure that it doesn't run when you restart your computer. -- Posted by rosebud at 11:39 am on Aug. 20, 2006 yeah just so you know spyware quake is one of those fake virus scanners http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=2806 have a http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How_to_Remove_SpywareQuake-t104439.html to get rid of it -- Posted by janis at 11:40 am on Aug. 20, 2006 Norton is protecting you from virus like trojan and wormd This is SPYWARE http://lavasoft.com/ :D -- Posted by codyswifeforever at 11:41 am on Aug. 20, 2006 sounds like you might have clicked on a pop up by mistake.. those give you viruses.. -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 11:48 am on Aug. 20, 2006 Norton is a crap thats why I said use Avast.If you wanna get rid of it use Avast.   -- Posted by codyswifeforever at 12:00 pm on Aug. 20, 2006 atcually avast is not a good virus scanner.. if you wanna get rid of any types of viruses.. you avg for sure.. it works well and it detects viruses right away and cleans them automatically for you and also download a spyware program called ewidoanti spyware it works wonders.. you just have to set the settings up and make sure the resident sheild is protected at all times and make sure you run scans all the time.. and it also does that for you and tells you that your fully protected at all times -- Posted by Zw33K3RB0Y at 12:16 pm on Aug. 20, 2006 Quote: from Napster the Hacker at 1:48 pm on Aug. 20, 2006 Norton is a crap thats why I said use Avast.If you wanna get rid of it use Avast.   Yeh, avast is good, i use it on all my computers, runs great, it's not using 20-%30 of my processor power, like Norton, lol. I think that pop-up is the Virus itself, i think it's Win32-Zlob (family). It's normally recieved via World of Warcraft or Runescape. -- Posted by zore at 2:14 am on Aug. 23, 2006 Try Bitdefender anti-virus ...thanks -- Posted by riz at 5:50 am on Aug. 23, 2006 its not a virus,its a adware,it will slow down ur PC and gives u unwanted ads and popups,use lavasoft adware or spysweeper.norton is sh*t.use avast or kaspersky -- Posted by Firey Shade Of Blue at 9:47 pm on Aug. 24, 2006 Quote: from janis at 11:35 am on Aug. 20, 2006 I suggest you to download something like Ad-Aware (don't know is it free) It's one of the lava soft progs which deletes spyware like you have got, normal anti virus progs doesn't help to delete spyware I'll try to find for you that ad aware Yea, ad-aware is free (thats how i got mine) I am not sure if this is the right site but I think that it goes something like this www.freedownlaod.com or www.freedownloads.com -- Posted by raymond08 at 6:43 am on Sep. 1, 2006 i think that is a advert i get them all the time