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Oh great, I just bought Spyware Bot, should have signed up to this forum first!!!
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I'm being nagged by a site advertising VirusProtect Pro. One of my boys opened an email, and . . . well . . . here I am with this problem! It's popping up a warning every few seconds. Really is making me nuts!

I've downloaded a couple of programs recommended here, but apparently have to buy them in order to have them actually clean my PC. Spyware Doctor and Spyware Blaster.

Spyware Doctor has detected a bunch of problems, but I just don't have the money to go for it right now. I was using Panda but when I tried to renew my subscription, I had problems with the shopping cart and couldn't renew. Emailed them for help, but haven't heard anything in days, and now my protection's expired. I am at the moment using a trial version of NOD32. I hope it's okay! It doesn't seem to be able to do anything about this problem, however.

I'm figuring VPP isn't a good place. This is the page he got taken to:

VirusProtectPro :: Home Page

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Hello, thanks for the information! I've disabled the live link you posted so that members do not accidentally click on them.

I'm puzzled...most of the programs recommended here do detect and remove even if they are commercial products... What are you exactly refering to?

If you do need any help with removing VirusProtectPro, follow the Prework link in my signature and post a new thread with the required logs as attachments.
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Hello chiaz!

Well, they probably do the job after you pay for them. They did a scan, but no cleaning. Or at least Spy Doctor did. SpyBlaster, I'm afraid I couldn't figure out how to get it to work! I thought it was a trial as well, if not free, but it didn't seem to want to help me without being a registered version.

In any case, I downloaded the trial of AVG, which I had no trouble figuring out, and that did get rid of it.

It also got rid of a ton of other stuff the other programs missed in their scans. Now, I will be buying this program in the very near future! Probably today!


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Spyware Doctor only scans, but AVG Anti-Spyware and SUPERAntiSpyware, both of which are recommended in the Prework, can update, scan, and remove malware if found, even after the trial period ended.

Anyway, I'm glad that you've gotten everything fixed now.


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SUPERAntiSpyware! I guess I somehow missed that one! Sounds intriguing! Yes, I read on the AVG homepage--or trial page--that it would keep working after the trial. I'm happy!

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