how the shit do you get rid of spyware

my flatmate used my laptop for a day, and now ive got that spyware where random words online come up as links, and i get random blanked popups because adblock blocks the ads but they still appear. ive tried a few free virus removals but nothing is getting rid f it.

also how the poo do i change my avatar, ive looked all through the menus, the option just seems to have disappeared.

Boot up your machine in safe-mode and scan with Malwarebytes.

Or did you already try that?

scan with microsoft security essentials and microsoft malicious software removal tool if its windows. both free provided you arent using a pirated windows :D

you can't. you're boned. sorry.

go to your profile, hover above your avatar, you should see a button that says "change"

make yourself a vodka martini (shaken not stirred) have sex with a beautiful scantily clad woman, shot it with a gun.

delete win32

and win33.

also stop posting on watmm or you'll infect everyone.

http://www.reedcorner.net/mmg/

  On 1/13/2014 at 1:24 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

would love to know what your housemate did :)

 

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04292004

gET a mAC lOl

also, inexplicably, the option to change avatars is now called "change photo." it's the first option when you click "my settings." makes no sense.

what everyone said here, malwarebytes, adaware, spybot, the full shebang.

Oddly enough Google.com has been freezing my computer up everytime it returns search results and Ive been going insane trying to figure out the problem. I could swear theres a virus in here somewhere...

Tell your roommate they are a cunt and shouldn't have looked @ porn on your laptop.

I used to run a little business in high school where I'd fix peoples fucked up computers. 98% of the viruses/trojans/malware/spyware/dreaded virtumonde I saw on their computers came from porn and downloading said porn. The other 2% of the baddies were from faulty torrents and e-mails.

I used to have fun re-naming random porn I found on hard drives to 'shame' and 'grandpa's birthday video'. Fucked up, innit?

"flatmate"

  On 1/13/2014 at 10:32 AM, MadameChaos said:

make yourself a vodka martini (shaken not stirred) have sex with a beautiful scantily clad woman, shot it with a gun.

*inserts clownpenis.fart joke here*

Here download this, this will get rid of your spyware:

ShadyAutoRunObject.EXE

  On 1/13/2014 at 6:54 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 1/13/2014 at 1:24 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

would love to know what your housemate did :)

 

 

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04292004

 

I use a spyware remover.

Malwarebytes tends to beat trojan's asses with a baseball bat. I had some real trouble getting rid of all the adware shit from that ghastly browser crippling iLivid trojan about 2 months ago. Eventually realised i had to go into Chrome settings disable it.

^^ yeah malwarebytes is what I use too. It's good!

Yep MBAM and the highly dodgy sounding (and even more dodgy looking website) Superantispyware ran in Rescue Scan should do you a treat.

Forget AV do it yourself manually

Download Sysinternals "Autoruns"

Remove all suspicious autorun object

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Use HJT

http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

Same as above

gl

If the OP is having issues setting an avatar on here, the thought of using Autoruns and HJT to modify registry entries manually is probably more dangerous than the malware itself

lolz