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Hi,
I have been having malware trouble with my computer from the beginning of December. I turned my computer on one day to find a lot of pop up messages telling me a suspicious files had been detected and I needed to scan now. I also received a bubble message in the task at saying that my c: drive had rejected and it was recommended I do a scan. I immediately realised this was suspicious and so went on google to see if anyone had similar problems. I couldn't find anything helpful so I tried a few scans myself.
I ran mcafee, MBAM, TDSSkiller, Spybot and Eset all of which came up clear. At a loss of what to do next I just stayed away from the computer for a while.
Recently I decided to give it another shot. The pop ups have got worse except now they are saying "pleaes remove all ity.im ads from your website" . My computer is very slow and the pop ups are even coming through when the computer is activated in safe mode.
Is there anything I can do to remove the virus/malware without having to wipe my computer?
It is a dell vostro 200 running windows XP
Many thanks for your help,
Paula
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