I got a virus! I know 70% of computers have them whether people know it or not, but I didn't think MINE did. I was going through the list of programs in my startup list in msconfig cleaning up stuff using a list I found on the net that tells you what everything is. I found a couple things in there that the site described as viruses so I took them out. After the restart, my computer was PISSED. Now I have things popping up all the time telling me I have a virus (bloodhound something or another...???)...thing down by the clock that keeps popping up saying "your system is infected...click here to remove the problem". If you click it, it just takes you to a sales site for some antivirus software. PLEASE help me get this crap OFF here. That was just ONE of them...there's a bunch of shit goin on here. I don't know if it's Spyware or a virus or what, but I want it OFF before it causes me really big problems. If anyone could point out a program that would help that I could download for free, that would be awesome...something I had to buy would be good, too. I'd like a program that would get rid of this shit, keep it from happening again and that would clean up my startup list and keep unauthorized progs from running in the background...I know I saw a prog that would do this somewhere...I just don't remember where. Thank you for any help.
--Brent
--Brent