Removing Spyware and Malware from a Windows PC Using Spybot Search and Destroy

hello again as you know I'm Eli the computer guy over here for Eli the computer guy comm and every man I to comm today's class is removing spyware and malware for my windows pc with Spybot Search and Destroy so today we are going to talk about how to remove spyware and malware from a Windows PC whether it's Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 etc now if you saw one of my previous courses on cleaning and infection from a PC you know that when I talk about computer's having viruses I say it is best to simply do a wipe and reload of the system that is not worth trying to rip a virus out of a PC because you never know whether or not you have really gotten it well something to keep in mind is that spyware and malware are not necessarily the same thing as viruses so viruses are pieces of software that try to damage your system so basically this is the software that gets into your system and tries to do damage it will do things like it will disable services it'll gray out things it will it'll just crash your system well spyware and malware does not necessarily damage your system and most of the best spyware out there intentionally tries not to damage your system it ends up damaging your system kind of unintentionally but it is not the purpose of the spyware or malware to damage your system so you may be wondering why this is well the thing is with spyware and with malware these pieces of software are basically simply trying to get your computer to do things you don't necessarily want your computer to do so with spyware the classic example of spyware is when you open up Internet Explorer and 20 additional windows pop open so you know you click on Internet Explorer and then as soon as that opens up you know 20 other windows open as soon as you click on anything 20 other windows open if you try to go to Google you go to some SEC's page etc well the creator of that spyware of that malware does want to crash your computer he actually wants your computer to work but he wants you to do certain things with your computer so with this type of malware basically what the creator of it is trying to do is they are trying to get more hits to their website so that they can hopefully get somebody to buy their pornography or whatever it is that they're trying to sell you know why wait for somebody to Google to get to your website if you can just try to force them to go to your website automatically so with this type of software you can actually remove it from your system many times relatively easily and your system will be ok because again it's not it's not getting in there it's not really damaging your system basically it's trying to take over Internet Explorer settings it's trying to steal some information from you it's trying it's trying to do stuff that you don't want done but at the same hand it's not necessarily trying to crash your computer so a virus a virus gets into your computer it tries to replicate itself it tries to crash your computer tries to do all kinds of nasty stuff spyware is simply trying to get your computer to do stuff that you don't necessarily want it to do now one of the things with this when you're dealing with viruses and when you're dealing dealing with spyware spyware can be very virus like and viruses can have a lot of spyware functionality so you as a professional have to decide when whatever you're dealing with is spyware or if it's a virus so it sometimes can can be a difficult call like sometimes like I say so most of the time with spyware you'll just get pop-ups you'll get your your internet explorer will be redirected to someplace you don't want it to go basically it's it's fairly simple stuff you'll know how to deal with it but sometimes you know although it does that stuff it also does other stuff that damages your computer so whether or not you're going to do a wipe and reload or whether or not you're just going to try to get rid of the spyware it's going to have to be your call so basically as I tell people all doing dealing with this some internet explorer redirects all you're dealing with is some pop-up ads if all you're dealing with is some little stuff like that you can most likely remove that spyware no problem 99% of the time it'll be golden if you start getting that virus stuff you know task manager is grayed out you can't get to your control panel that kind of stuff starts happening that's more on the side of virus and then like I say you should do a wipe and reload if you don't want to a weapon reload you can take my class on cleaning an infected Windows PC but I would suggest that you do a life in reload so today's class I'm going to be showing you how to use a piece of software called Spybot Search & Destroy so Spybot has been around basically about as long as spyware and malware has been around I've been using it like 6 or 7 years now the nice part is that Spybot has stayed consistently good as I talked about with all security software some years some security software is on top and you know other security software as it is is below so so back when I started Spybot Search and Destroy was the absolute best and then was adware and then it was like spy doctor something rather and now it's probably like malwarebytes is one of the best detection but Spybot always consistently stays in the one two or three spot it has always been a very good piece of software so taking you guys a class today it's something that I'm confident in six months or a year or two years is still going to be good for you to use one of the reasons I like Spybot too is not only does it detect the spyware and malware but it also tries to immunize your system to prevent spyware and malware from getting on your computer and causing more problems for you also I like it because it's generally free as I'll go and I'll show you when we do the demonstration they have some weird wonky licensing thing that I don't really understand um but by-and-large I'll say that it's free you can download it for free you seem to be able to use it for free the license kind of says it's for free until it kind of doesn't say it's refer so in my book legally I think that's confusing as help so I will use it for free so basically with Spybot you get all the functionality seemingly for free and they make it so convoluted I don't think they're gonna sue you anyway where unlike let's say with spy sweeper or ad-aware or some of this other software malwarebytes they do have pay for versions that you have to pay for outright if you don't pay for it you would flat-out pirated the software then that's illegal so today's class is removing spyware and malware from my windows pc with Spybot Search and Destroy again we're going to show you how to use search-and-destroy to remove the malware the spyware from the computer again spyware and malware generally can be removed from my computer all hunky-dory all good 99% of the time everybody's happy spyware and malware is not the same as viruses you're going to have to make the call when you're saying down on a computer you think it's virus do you think it's spider so before we use Spybot Search and Destroy to remove the spyware and malware from your computer we're going to have to do a couple of prerequisite steps um this is basically the same and as as whenever you sit down to a computer so whenever I'm talking about computer repair probably going to basically tell you to do all these same steps the first thing that you're going to do is a simple PC tune-up so we had a 30 minute class on a PC tune-up if you don't know how to do it go take a look at the class what we want to do with this PC tune-up is we want to clean out all the temporary files so temporary files are the files that are created by your operating system just in due course it's just just files that are created so that your computer can do stuff a lot of times computers can amass quite a few of these temporary files you know sometimes a gig some kinds up to 50 50 some objects i've seen on one client the thing is when you run your spyware scans these scans are going to scan everything in your computer so why do you want to scan temporary files that are basically garbage it's just gonna gonna waste time it's just gonna take a lot of time so you might as well just delete those before you even start start messing with Spybot Search in destroy you then need to uninstall crapware so within the spyware context what I mean by crapware is get rid of all of the toolbars so you're going to go in you're going to open up uninstall programs on the with the Windows PC and Comcast toolbar Verizon toolbar Yahoo toolbar Google toolbar freeze box toolbar bearshare toolbar God knows how many toolbars basically almost every single piece of free software out there uh when you install it asks you if you want to also install there toolbar well those toolbars they're not really spyware they're just what we call malware basically those toolbars can cause problems when you use Internet Explorer to go out and go to the web again they can do Internet Explorer redirects they can they can just cause you problems so what you're going to do after you clean out your temporary files of your ongoing and you're going to uninstall all of those toolbars because sins those are actually applications that are installed on your computer Spybot may or may not remove them it may not detect them but I'm telling you all those toolbars are horrible and evil and nasty maybe Google's okay maybe the next thing you're going to do is you're going to disable unnecessary startup items so go in and again you know any pieces of software that you don't recognize disable them because they may be malware they may be a spyware that'll be causing you problems the next thing is you want to make sure that you have anti-virus installed in your computer now as I talked about before viruses and spyware malware are two separate things and you do need two separate pieces of software to deal with them I don't know why seems stupid seems like antivirus companies we just all put in the antivirus software but I digress you do have to have two different pieces of software to deal with them so you have to have antivirus you have that anti spyware well there's something in the gray area so as I talked about before there's a gray area between spyware and viruses these are normally called pups you will see this on a lot of antivirus scanners these are called potentially unwanted programs antivirus scanners do a very very good job of getting rid of these pups or potentially unwanted programs basically these are programs that are installed on your computer somehow you probably didn't do it that aren't necessarily a virus but you probably don't want them there so your antivirus software if you do a full scan will normally be able to detect these pups and get rid of them so just run your scanner if it says you have pups get rid of these potentially unwanted programs because you want them gone so that so although we're talking about Spybot Search and Destroy today you should have anti-virus installed on your computer and you should do a full scan before you do the spyware scan just to make sure the viruses are gone and the potentially unwanted programs are gone because again those those pups are vaguely like like spyware the final thing is make sure that you do the updates to your system do all the Microsoft updates you know flayed a service pack Internet Explorer big one make sure you're running the latest Internet Explorer for your computer internet explorer is just just full chock-full of bugs and problems and vulnerabilities etc so as I said before the cleaning out and infected a Windows PC class simply by updating all the updates on Microsoft a many times you can eliminate problems then also make sure to update your Java make sure to update Adobe Reader and make sure to update Adobe Flash you do those in the Microsoft updates Adobe updates and Java updates and and that will solve a lot of the problems with some of this filer so these are the preliminary steps so Before we jump in the using Spybot Search & Destroy we're going to be do a basic tune-up clean out the the temporary finals uninstall the crap where it disables startup items make sure antivirus is installed get rid of those pups potentially unwanted programs and then do all the updates all the windows updates all the internet explorer updates service packs Office Adobe Java etc these are the preliminary things that you need to do before you start doing the spyware scans so now that we've done the preliminary steps now we need to dive in and use Spybot Search and Destroy so again this is free to download the licensing seems a little convoluted but in my book it seems to be free so we'll go with that basically we're going to go to thickets safer networks org we're going to download a Spybot Search and Destroy we're going with Stella and I will show you how to use it now one of the big things is after or while you're installing Spybot Search and Destroy you're going to have a lot of options and you know it's really normal to go to next next next xxx one of the next I don't want you to do I want to make sure that you uncheck the checkbox is there will be a checkbox for what is called tea timer tea a timer is something called a registry guard basically it protects your registry from edits that you may not want to have happen so some of the spywares and the viruses out there will try to modify your registry without you knowing about the problem is with all these registry guards whether it's spy bob whether it's McAfee whether it's norton is whenever something tries to modify the registry you're going to a little popup box and it's going to say something basically it's going to say blabbity blah try to modify galbi and as somebody with fourteen years experience I can say that's what it says to me so god knows what it's going to say to you and the problem is is if you say no if you don't allow one of these registry modifications to happen you could break a piece of software that you need to function properly so I would suggest that you do not activate tea timer when you're installing Spybot Search and Destroy it is a very very very good service if you know how to use it and if you really want to lock down your PC most people do enough modifications to their PC though if they use tea timer they're going to end up causing more damage than go so I would suggest when you're installing Spybot do not activate the tea time um not only could you break something but also you're just going to get all these pop-ups all the time and especially as a technician is just going to be a pain in the butt so you're going to install a spy bond it's going to be a very simple process now after you've installed spy about one of the quirks this is a weird quirk if you're using Windows Vista or if you're using Windows 7 if you're going to run Spybot what you want to do is you're going to have an icon on your desktop you want to right click that icon and new run as administrator the reason you want to do this is if you don't do run as administrator you don't get all the functionality of Spybot and it only kind of like half works half the time it's it's it's just really weird and it's really bad so just make sure when you're going to be running Spybot Search and Destroy you on the icon you do right-click and then you rub do run as administrator that'll make make your life good when you run it the first time you're going to have the ability to to update the software so you always update the Det files for the software you may be asked whether or not you want to backup your registry before you make changes and I don't know I mean I guess if you're really anal and you want to backup your registry that would be an okay idea I can tell you out of so what I'm going to consultants is oh three since I've been using it since oh three I've never backed up the registry and it's never caused me a problem so me personally I wouldn't worry about it but basically so you're gonna you're gonna you know update the software you're going to say no to backing off the registries I would say then the first thing you're going to do after after you get done with this is you want to immunize the system so immunizing the system tries to lock down holes in the Windows operating system that may allow malware or spyware to do stuff that you don't want malware and spyware to do one of the good examples Spybot does is it goes into your hosts file so we talked about the host file back in the hacking DNS host file Maps IP addresses - domain names so within the host file you can say cnn.com goes to 258 66 140 4.55 well this is one of the ways that spy ware or malware redirects your operating system when you try to go to Google or Facebook it many times will hack your hosts file and modify where Facebook or Google or Yahoo or any of that go so instead of going to the Google web server you go to the double Triple X porn web server so that's one of the things that Spybot is going to do is it's going to go in it's going to modify your hosts file so that instead of going to these bad websites you actually get redirected to yourself you get redirected to one point seven point zero point zero point one I will show you that and then it locks the host file so that no other applications can mess with it this is a very big thing the host file back with with Windows XP you know pre service pack 2 this was the big attack vector for this malware and the spyware it would go in it would modify the host file you just like I talked about in that hacking DNS class and then again like I say instead of going to facebook.com you will go to sit on my face comm stead of going to yahoo.com you go to UPS XCOM etc basically this was all done through the hosts file and I'll show you that when we do the demonstration and then after you do the immunization then you're going to go in and then you are going to scan your system for spyware and this is basically just a stock standard scam like like you do with anything antivirus or whatever so you just basically hit scan and it will scan your whole system it will find whatever infections are there and then it will try to remove it now with Spybot sometimes it will find a spyware or malware that it cannot remove right at this second because the service is already running so many times if a piece of spyware is already running in the background it cannot be shut off or delete it at this time while the computer is booted so Spybot may give you the option it may say please reboot your system so that it can do a full scan before the service has started and won't be able to to uninstall the spyware you just remember with this that when you reboot the system it is not going to simply what it has already found it is going to do another full scan so if it took an hour to scan the first time when you reboot is going to take you another hour so this can be a time-consuming process so so basically that that's what there is a first five on searching destroyer we're gonna go on the computer I'm going to show you how this works again it is very simple again I like Spybot because you know year after year it has been a very good product and yeah it's a pretty good thing so uh let's let's let's go on the computer and I'll show you how this works so here we are on my Windows 7 computer we have a Chrome opened and I'm on Google I just did a Google search for Spybot and the first thing that comes up is the home of Spybot snd search-and-destroy so the website we're going to be going to is w WS a 4 - networking org all we do is click on this so Spybot Search & Destroy they have a few different products so they have Spybot Search & Destroy the bootable CD run eliezer finalizar idolize ur would probably do different classes on those but what we want today is Spybot Search and is destroy so we're going to click on here here basically it's going to give you all the information about what it is and then we're going to download Spybot Search & Destroy from this product link here now one thing that I'm going to show you is if you keep scrolling down scroll down all the way down you have some related links so so since we are professionals remember professionals need to worry about more than tcp/ip and spyware and all that we need to worry about things like licenses so under here under License Agreement I'm going to show you how convoluted this thing is so it does say freeware first of all the reasons why Spybot Search and Destroy is free it's dedicated to a wonderful girl bla bla bla bla bla this all sounds very very very very good until you get down to section 2 e it says corporate use as companies are not individual persons and would have problems fulfilling the above Terms there's a license for corporate users well if you actually read these terms no idea why a corporation couldn't deal with these terms doesn't make any sense so then if you click here then it comes over and there are some some weird business additions that I'm really not sure what you're supposed to buy so there's a bootable CD you can buy for 39 bucks there's a small business edition that's like $99 plus $13 per node there's a service edition one technician one year is 129 dollars and this is all for a product that over here it says is free so this is something that you should look at remember any software they're going to be using you need to take a look at a license and figure out whether or not you can use it or like I say with Spybot whether or not the licensing seems so damn convoluted that you can't imagine anybody could sue you anyway like I say if you read this I really don't understand what they're talking about but anyways that's the licensing there so we're going to go back and then we will scroll up and then all you do is you click on the link to download Spybot Search & Destroy and then you know you have different mirrors here so we'll just go to file forum download then we do download Spybot Search & Destroy [Music] and we do keep and so this isn't too big so with me I have Comcast cable internet so it's pretty quick but it's about a 15.6 Meg file so if you have Comcast it'll take you that quick and if you have dsl it'll take you ten times as long so all we're going to do though is you're going to double click on this and then we're going to run this is just a standard installer yes then we do English and then we do next and then we do I accept the agreement next where you're going to install it you know next all this stuff icons for blind user mode I guess if you care Explorer files and this stuff yeah just keep it leave it next folder next okay here is where you're not going to click Next you just you're just going to hold off for a second give it one second now here's a check boxes so create a desktop icon leave that create a quick launch icon if you want to leave that leave that use internet explorer protection SD helper you want to leave this checked this is very good it protects Internet Explorer from the holes that Microsoft leaves there what I say you should uncheck is use system settings protection tea timer uncheck that again it's technically a good product but at the end of the day as a pain in the button and then all we do is we click Next and then we do install and then installs pretty quick that's it so you see how quick that is so then all we do is we do finish and then we do yes ok now here it's going to say do you want to create a bat registry backup your sa no next ok so we're going to start using the program sometimes it asks you for updates and well other times it doesn't for some reason and this is the this this the screen that you're going to be using for Spybot basically it's pretty simple you have the the check for problems you have search for updates and you have immunize so what we're going to do is we're just going to search for updates right now we're gonna do yes we're going to continue I'm gonna do down though it's gonna download all these up like just like everything else in the world there's a million updates and remember for security software new new vulnerabilities come out like every couple of minutes so whenever you run Spybot you always want to do an update like literally if you run it in the morning and it's the evening do the updates again just to make sure that you've got everything now cancel [Music] now what we're going to do is give me we are going to take the icon so this is the icon for Spybot Search and Destroy that is on your desktop now what you want to do when you're going to be running Spybot is you right-click and as I say you do this run as administrator' if you do not run Spybot Search and Destroy as an administrator it is going to cause problems I'm going to tell you it's going to cause problems so with the icon makes you right-click and then do run as administrator and of course is going to give you this warning and you're going to say yes and then it's going to open up now the first thing that we are going to do is we are going to immunize a system so we click on the immunize button it's going to search and it's going to look for vulnerabilities so what we're going to do is we run to check again so this is where we check to see what vulnerabilities are we're going to see that we have currently 80,000 vulnerabilities protected and 104,000 unprotected all you do is you leave all these things checked and then you just hit the immunize button so this will automatically fix all those problems and protect all the issues that you might have on your computer this can't take a couple of minutes generally it's not too bad it usually takes somewhere under three minutes to do and so Spybot has immunized the system now so so basically we just checked for the system then we click the immunize and then it finished so this total thing we did a little time lapse here because this this little thing took about five minutes to do so now all these holes have been protected within Windows and Internet Explorer so things like cookies and domains and all that kind of stuff now as I said before one of the really interesting things with the immunization it modifies your hosts file so the host file is used in DNS domain name services resolution so if we want to look at the host file we go to see we go to Windows you go to system 32 we go to drivers we go to e.t.c and then we go to the hosts file we can right-click this and we can do edit it and what you will see is within the host file Spybot has inserted domain names to point back to one twenty seven point zero point zero point one so one twenty seven point zero point zero point one is something called the loopback address this is the IP address of the network adapter on your computer all the time you use this for troubleshooting so if you want to see if your network adapter use that / is working you can do one twenty seven point zero point zero point one or if you're writing a web server on your computer you can type in one twenty seven point zero point zero point one and that will send you to the web server that's actually running on your computer now what Spybot has done if it has redirected all of these really bad domain names just so it goes back to your computer essentially what this does is it kills the connection so if you if for some reason you could try to go to first page here com it'll just send you straight back to your computer and nothing else will happen this is used so that the spyware does not try to phone home and infect your computer with other stuff so if you know pop-ups are trying to show up etc this will try to stop that from happening so this is one of the protections that Spybot does to try to protect your system from you know being by infected by other stuff so you know 100 sex links com just gets redirected so you won't be able to go to the website 100 sex links comm anymore so that's what's done one of the things that's done for the immunization and it does a few other things again to try to prevent your computer from being infected once you're done with this then all you do is you go up to this icon for search-and-destroy and then you're going to check for problems now I'm going to check for problems and I'm going to show you how this works but when you do this this can take a while we will we will use a time delay or whatever but this can take up to an hour to scan for a computer so just just something for you to keep in mind but all you're going to do then is you're just going to do check for problems and basically you're just going to wait for it to finish the scan so down here you'll see it's running us the bot check and then this is the progress bar at the bottom of the screen and now all we do is run a wait for things to start popping up so now the scan has finished I think that took me about about 15 minutes total so not too bad and as you can see it has found problems on my computer so it'll show you what the problems are let's see tracking cookies tracking cookie that's interesting that's a registry setting right there if you users tracking cookie tracking cookie okay so I've got a lot of tracking cookies on my system that's no big deal but basically unless you know what you're doing you just leave these check marks checked and all you're going to do is you're going to say fix selected problems so you click on the fix selected problems do you want to remove these entries yes and fixed okay so that's all there is is to running the scan like I say I doubt you understand what any of this says anyway so so don't uncheck it and that's what there is a for Spybot Search and Destroy so we installed Spybot I showed you a little bit about the licensing when you're installing it again I would suggest you don't use two timer but you know that's kind of up to you when you start it up remember to do right click and then do run as administrator' if you don't do that it's going to have problems then you're going to immunize the system and then you're just going to run the scan now you will notice that I have some settings here there is a different mode so the default mode that you probably see when you install Spybot looks like this there is an advanced mode and it does have other options here it does have other things you can play with I would generally say don't mess with these it's not that they don't work I just want to mess with them if I were you you know everybody does certain things very well the thing the Spybot does very well is the immunize and the the removing the spyware part so with that let's go back out to the real world and have some final thoughts so that's all there is to using Spybot Search and Destroy to remove the malware and spyware from your computer I showed you it's a pretty simple piece of software there are some more advanced options in there I don't know whether or not you use them that's up to you personally I find with those other advanced options it's just better to use other pieces of software but they are there you know you can't play with it so basically this whole process of removing spyware malware from your computer what you're going to do is first you're going to do a basic tune-up of your computer using something like cc cleaners you're going to clean out the temporary files you're going to uninstall the crap where the tool bar is etc and disable startup items make sure that antivirus is installed although we're dealing with spyware you can also have viruses not only that but the antivirus software can detect pops potentially unwanted programs these are almost always unwanted programs so you just want to be able to get rid of them then you're going to make sure you install all the updates the big one is that you have all the updates for Internet Explorer Internet Explorer is the main weakness on your computer for all the spyware and malware so by simply updating it to the like latest updates you know ie 9 currently or ie a on Windows XP this can solve a lot of problems beyond that you want to make sure you get the latest Adobe Reader Adobe Flash and Java these are other also other weaknesses that malware and spyware can try to try to get in there and mess with your system um when you go to download a spy Spybot Search & Destroy you just do Google download it remember I showed you the hank eNOS with the license I'm going to do it seems to say that it's free so I'm going to say that it's free I've used it for free for years I hope that's a good thing but but you get the full access to it for free basically you're gonna download it you're going to install it again when you install I would highly highly highly highly highly highly highly suggest that you do not use tea timer I've done with tea timer done without tea timer tea timer the lipid pain-in-the-ass especially remember especially if you're doing this for clients remember when a client gives you a computer they want back a functioning thing we don't have to think about they don't want to have to deal with pop-ups and all that kind of stuff the more pop-ups and the more stuff that is going on the more problems are going to have the more phone calls you're going to get for them and the more miserable everybody is going to be I'm not saying tea timer is not a five product I just think it is completely more trouble than it's worth it's just I so I would say do not use tea timer so you're going to install it you're going to do the run the updates make sure you're updated with the latest updates just like anything else it's going to ask if you want to back up the registry you can I guess the technical thing to say is that you should I never do and it has never caused me a problem once you do that that you're going to immunize the system so immunizing system as I showed you it goes in it changes the host file locks the host file it does some other stuff gets basically to protect your system and then you are going to scan for spyware which is pretty simple you says scan and then you hit fix and it's all good to go the one quark with with spyboss register I remember this is remember to right-click and do run as administrator when you start up a spy but if you do not do this like I say it kind of half fails it's not that it doesn't work it just doesn't quite work perfectly work good so yes when you're going to run Spybot Search and Destroy with Windows 7 or Vista make sure to right-click and new run as administrator' yeah and that that'll that that'll that'll make it work properly for you now this should get rid of the spyware this should get rid of them our if you are certain all you have a spyware and malware in your computer you don't think it's a virus inspection infection and this doesn't get rid of it you can use other anti-malware other anti spyware software now things such as combofix malwarebytes etc remember with virus software antivirus software you never want to use more than one antivirus software on your computer one time remember antivirus software is like condoms one is good any more than one and everything just gets disgusting and horrible really quick now with anti spyware software or anti-malware software you can have multiple pieces of software on your computer so you could install malware bytes and Spybot Search and Destroy and combofix and and adware and spyware doctor whatever the hell you want to try to clean out the spyware sometimes if you want to go to the trouble this is worth it most these scans are rather quick mostly scans rather painless and usually they have at least trial software so you get to use it for free the one thing that I would suggest though is once you get done with all those plethora of scans uninstall everything other than Spybot Search and discret or remember all these pieces of software are making small changes to your operating system they're doing small things to Windows operating system all those small things can wind up creating big problems the more security software you have on your computer the more likely it is that you're going to inadvertently create problems on the computer and again as far as a client is concerned they don't care whether it's a hacker or whether it's you if the computer doesn't work how they want it to work they're just gonna be pissed yeah so so what I would say is use a Spybot Search & Destroy if that doesn't fix it again now we're bytes as good combo fix is good adware is good spyware doctor is good there's like some super spy bot anti something rather that was supposed to be pretty good you can install these and you can run the scans I would just say when you get done uninstall all those you guys just so you don't have any problems at the end of the day if you don't want to deal with virus or malware and spyware the best thing to do is have you or your clients not use Internet Explorer as your primary web browser Internet Explorer is full of holes and vulnerabilities the reason for this is because way back in the day back you know when they came out with Windows 95 they decided that Internet Explorer was going to become part of the Windows operating system now understand that web browsers the way that they were originally envisioned were simply applications that allow you to view documents you could view HTML documents so the idea way back when is you had like WordPerfect you had Microsoft Word you had Star Office so if you are going to write a paper if you're going to write a document and WordPerfect you could only read it and work perfect you couldn't read it in staroffice and you couldn't read it in Microsoft Word if you if you created a document in Microsoft Word saying you couldn't read it in staroffice and you couldn't read it and we're perfect so the idea with HTML the hypertext markup language was that you could create documents in a single format and have different applications be able to read those those documents so these web browsers so you could have Internet Explorer you can have Netscape Navigator you could have whatever else they came out with and all of these different web browsers would be able to view the document so the world wide web is because one massive insane document really all the world wide web is is the biggest document that has ever been created as far as mankind is concerned so when you're using you know Firefox or Safari or Chrome all those web browsers do basically is view websites that's all they do well you see with Internet Explorer window Microsoft they tied Internet Explorer into the operating system much more deeply than simply being document redo so with Internet Explorer you have things called ActiveX controls with your little programs that can run within Internet Explorer and give access to the local resources on the computer you have FTP control you have proxy control you have a bunch of stuff within Internet Explorer that you don't have with Google Chrome or Firefox or Safari so you know with with Internet Explorer you can remotely control other people's computers you can share files back and forth through Internet Explorer itself it has all this functionality well remember in the computer world the more functionality something has conversely the more vulnerability it has so because Internet Explorer can do all these wonderful things it also means there's just a whole mess of vulnerabilities that you can bring on to your computer by using Internet Explorer this is why I personally use Google Chrome other people use Firefox some people like Safari why these other web browsers really only are web browsers they are used to view documents online they don't have all this other functionality on ie vulnerability so Internet Explorer allows you to do a lot of cool stuff but because it allows you to do a lot of that cool stuff it's just it's just mul neural as hell and nasty um I only use Internet Explorer when I absolutely have to and it's for this reason I I can't say enough I think Internet Explorer is an amazing piece of software if you really understand how it works I mean it is mind-bogglingly cool the problem is is all the hackers out there decide to hack it so if you don't want to be dealing with malware and spyware etc use Firefox use Chrome you use Safari or help use a Mac use a Mac or using Linux when we're talking about spyware and malware we really are only talking about Windows PCs you don't really have this problem Mac and you don't really have this problem of Linux it's all a windows thing and the on being Windows thing it's an Internet Explorer thing on Windows really at the end of the day so so this was the class on removing spyware and malware from a Windows PC with Spybot Search and Destroy as you know I'm Eli the computer I overhear Virgil I the computer guy calm and ever man I Tina calm as always I've enjoyed teaching this class and I look forward to seeing it the next 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Channel: Eli the Computer Guy

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Keywords: Spybot -- Search & Destroy, Windows, Spyware, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Tutorial, Computer

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Length: 44min 0sec (2640 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 16 2012