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Originally Posted by Shockwares
Norton sucks, I had this happen twice, probably due to you visiting mindpoop (thats where I got mine)
First time, I couldn't do anything and resorted to going through Norton themselves and they did the whole take over your computer for 100 bucks and repair it. He cleaned it all up but the idiot left the file that initiated the virus on my desktop and it quickly took over again after a few days.
I ended up just opening in safe mode and just transfer everything you need or care about off onto an external drive and reformatted. I then downloaded AVG and use them now. once you finished reformatting, connect the stuff you transferred to the external drive and scan it all w/ your new anti virus stuff before putting it back on.
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Originally Posted by showoffzzzz
If you are able to download Avast and then disable your current virus program and install Avast then you can shut down and restart and Avast will scan before start up and hopefully detect the problem and isolate it. I also recommend running malware bytes & Spybot, but once you resolve the problem you only want to run Avast because running more than one program can cause problems. Avast does most everything you need and it is free.
Have you tried going back to a restore point using Windows Restore? If you can go back then you may be able to eliminate the problem that way and then get Avast up and running.
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Great minds think a like.
Shockwares know's what's up. Go with his suggestion or mine & showoffzzz. Lose Norton and if you do surf Mindpoop I would stop that also. Mindpoop is well known for infecting browsers and hitting you with random popups, some people say it's fine but it's not worth the risk in my opinion.
If you want mindpoop quality finds without the risk just go here:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/showthread.php?t=70202
Fango and everyone else that contributes in that thread does a great job. It should really be titled The Mindpoop Substitute.
Be aware:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/showthread.php?t=73980
Slick