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friggin adware crap...
i did a bad download a few nights ago that made avast popup 2-3 alerts and suffice it to say i now have ads popping up and getting past adblock. worst part is, i tried doing a full system scan with avast! earlier after killing my laptops internet connection first (the obvious first step) but it seems avast can no longer do a full system scan as it stopped and said "some files could not be scanned". it didn't even reach 1% so i'm open to suggestions here as i REALLY don't like freaking ads >: if i should try a different antivirus, which one?
some of said ads are the ad link type which make words on a page look dark orange and have a ad appear when the cursor is over them, then on gamefaqs i saw those pop-over ads on the side and bottom of the pages.
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Avast is crap, use AVG free and Malwarebytes and if that dont work use the Dr Web live CD (can put it on a flash drive too) and boot it up after restarting your PC, connect to the net to make sure it can update its database so it can do a proper scan.
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ah, worth a shot if nothing else. avast lasted me this long but i'll give avg a try
edit: ok, installed avg and did a full scan and i was right, 4 generic adware but it also found a few trojans, corruptions and so on totally 15 risks that were then fixed.
sorry avast!, looks like you've just dropped behind in usefulness a bit.
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Dont forget to get and update/scan with malwarebytes, its not a antivirus so it can be ran along with AVG.
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I'd make sure to start in safe mode with networking then scan with malwarebytes. A lot of times it will miss stuff if you start it after logging in.
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If it's really stubborn/nasty. Hit it with Combofix first and then finish with Malwarebytes.