My gateway win 95 is messed. it is full of viruses, popups that occur when
offline, adware, etc. my computer is to the point where i cant even get
online w/o crashing it, and even using word (its primary function) is a
challenge. I have a functioning pc w/ cd burner. what free
antivi-software/help can i get that will fix it. could i re-install the os(to
return to like-new condition) , or would that be to hard for a non-techy to
do. any help is appreciated.

Chris c

chris c wrote:
Use an Anti-Virus of your choice and keep it updated.
Avast is free:
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

Download Sysclean from here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com
Read this:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/readme.txt
Reboot into safe mode ,delete all temp files and run Sysclean, write
down results, then reboot normally.

Download AdAware from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html
Read the help files and then Update and run AdAware.

Download Spybot Search+Destroy here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Read this:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
Update and run Spybot(enable all protection).

Download Spyware Blaster here: (enable all protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Scan your system with BitDefender here:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

Scan with Norton here:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/h...YYTZXPE&bhcp=1

If the previous do not solve your problems:

Download Bazooka here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

Download SwatIt here:
http://swatit.org/

Download KL-Detector here
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm

Download CWShredder here
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract..._download.html

Download HijackThis here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
Install, run and save the log that is created. Don’t let it fix anything
yet!
You can find forums to post the log to have it analyzed here:
http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Download Stinger here:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Download BeClean here:
http://boozet.xepher.net/beclean/download.htm

If you want to learn-try to fix you problem.
A format and install will fix your problem the easiest.
But you need to find out how to keep your system clean.
-max

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Keeping Windows Clean: http://www.geocities.com/maxpro4u/madmax.html
Virus Cleaning+Fixes: http://www.geocities.com/maxpro4u/TechPros
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The procedure for re-installing Windws 95 is desacribed here:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w95_restore.html

"chris c" wrote: