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when ever i open a folder on my computer a window pops up saying “system error!

attention,user! some dangerous trojan horse detected in your system. microsoft windows files corrupted. this may lead to the destruction of important files in c:/windows. downloas protection software now! click ok to download antispyware.(recommended)” when i click ok,cancel or x it brings me to http://www.spywareadvancedscanner.com... witch my computer has blocked because that is the virus that it wants u to download. i cant get the window to go away. i need a free way to get rid of it.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (5 minutes after post)

ok well seems like the virus/spyware itself is trying to destroy the computer more by making you click those sites. i recommend the AVG 8.0 anti-virus free edition and Ad-ware 2008 from download.com those 2 programs kept my computer healthy. and dont install any active-x for a while

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 hour, 27 minutes after post)

you also almost certainly want spybot too…

however, if something is doing that to your computer, it sounds like you’ve got one of the real nastys - and its altered your system severely - i would recommend doing a system restore

restart your computer in safe mode (press F8 when your computer is rebooting) and run the system restore to a earlier point…

you may lose some recently installed files, but it sounds like its better than losing your computer :P

oh, and then go and get ad-aware, spybot, zonealarm and AVG :D

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 hour, 30 minutes after post)

you could also do a run, msconfig, and stop all the extra services and startup programs from starting, but that only solves the problem a little. also, do you have abrand name computer? or is it custom.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 hour, 33 minutes after post)

true - but if its embedded into the system files, theres a high chance that its actually re-written part of the system registry/.dll’s

so a system restore, or a complete format re-install is more likely…

still, it might be worth the half measures, just in case i’m wrong…

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An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (3 months, 2 weeks after post)

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