i was recently infected with pest trap and i think spysherrif, i searched this forum before posting and found a thread that stated just the problem i had, with the fake pop up warning in the corner telling me my computer is infected and then it automatically installed pesttrap. i first downloaded spybot S&D and ran that but to no avail. i then followed the instructions (which i printed to be able to follow closer) first off after starting my computer in safemode to run smithfraud i ran and waited for disk cleanup to run, which after TWELVE + hours of waiting it never was even close to being done running (is that normal if disk cleanup hasnt been run often?) i decided to close the disk clean up and continue to run the smithfraudfix. after running it i restarted my computer and it seemed to be ok but the same pop up warning came back.


i do not know what to do please help, im about to go crazy

Mod Edit: Topic moved to a more appropriate forum

Hello mossjasonm

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