Posts Tagged ‘fix your own spyware’

Difficulty:  Remembering your anniversary. Estimated Cost: Approximately 12 dollars (if you do it the easy way).  Fixing it yourself: Still Priceless. Required Patience: Between 7 and 10. Summary: This method involves removing the (boot) drive from the infected machine, and connecting it to a non-infected machine, and then using the virus scanner on that machine to remove [...]

Difficulty:  Swatting flys. Estimated Cost: 0 dollars.  Fixing it yourself: Priceless. Required Patience: Between 6 and 10. Summary: This guide will help you get rid of a virus by means of installing antivirus software, anti-spyware software, and touches into hijack this!  This method is about 20 percent effective but when it works, you shouldn’t need [...]

Intro: This is a simple guide that explains how to set up virus and spyware protection on your PC. Difficulty Level: Feeding the ducks. Applicable Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, although there is no reason I can think of that this wouldn’t apply to previous versions. So perhaps you have heard horror [...]