The Avast antivirus I have used for years has a boot time scan feature
that saved the Win7 hard drive on one of my laptops. It works much the same as
launching other antivirus software in SAFE mode.
>
>I use a Thinkpad T410 laptop running Windows 7. Lately I have noticed
>that there seems to be a lot of activity going on which seems to disrupt
>the proper operations. Ads appearing in abundance, browsers freezing, a
>"securesearch" bar appears at the top of my Chrome page when I try to
>type into the Google search bar. I think my whole system needs to be
>spring cleaned soonest.
>
>I have Microsoft Security Essentials running and I also run System
>Mechanic. I would welcome any authoritative advice in plain English (or
>plain American) to help me to properly interrogate and identify any
>illegal aliens in my system, destroy same and implement a robust
>security; thereafter optimise the darn thing.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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