**HELP** Computer problem (SPAM)

[Stratpicker]

Hi Keith
Try this link -
http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-fo ... &id=110317
It gives you some ideas how to proceed.
I gave up on AVG and now use Avast with no trouble at all. Once you have got rid of AVG, do try it.
HTH
Ian

[hernando]

Hi Keith
Presumably you want to uninstall AVG from your computer to use a different Antivirus?
Anyway, removal of AVG can sometimes be problematic and to achieve a full removal you may have to download yet another latest version of AVG, and save it to your machine WITHOUT INSTALLING. Then do a reboot of the computer,
If you have more than one user account on your machine, make sure you are log in using an administrator account, which ideally will be the same one that installed AVG in the first place.
Then locate the saved AVG installation file, and launch the installation process, but this time you should choose the 'Uninstall Product' option in the 'Select Setup Type' dialog.
This should then remove all your AVG
For further help and instructions, have a look at http://www.avg.com/gb-en/faq and the stuff relating to FAQ 1996
"How to uninstall AVG (remove it permanently from PC)"
You should be able to do all this without committing yourself financially to buying AVG or entering license numbers and the like.

Hope this helps

[roninnes]

If you go through Control panel and select add or remove prgrammes then find AVG 2011 and uninstall. That should work. I gave up on all the "free" anti-virus and bought Bullguard and so far so good.

[Amanda]

One sure fire cure Keith,
Take laptop up to bedroom - open window - De-fenestrate Laptop!

All spam problems solved - apart from the meaty stuff!!

Amanda

[geoff1711]

Defenestrate, now that's a word that doesn't come up too often, in fact it comes up so rarely my spell check doesn't recognise it.

But back to the question in hand, this may not be on your computer, it is most probably on one of your contacts computer(s), or if you, like me, use a remote mail server, MSN, Yahoo, Google etc lurking in there.

I go to a guitar club in Croydon every now and then and one of the members has had this happening for the better part of a year now, you get nothing for weeks and then suddenly you'll get the odd email from him with nothing but a web address.

Perhaps I should Defenestrate him or his computer.

Geoff

[geoff1711]

just checked my login record and found one from CA, US on the 3rd of June, can't check before then but it looks like somebody hacked into my account then, I've now changed password and security questions.

But in my case they must be hacking into Yahoo and not my computers as when it first happened I was offline.

Geoff

[Risky]

Defenestrate, now that's a word that doesn't come up too often, in fact it comes up so rarely my spell check doesn't recognise it.

But back to the question in hand, this may not be on your computer, it is most probably on one of your contacts computer(s), or if you, like me, use a remote mail server, MSN, Yahoo, Google etc lurking in there.

I go to a guitar club in Croydon every now and then and one of the members has had this happening for the better part of a year now, you get nothing for weeks and then suddenly you'll get the odd email from him with nothing but a web address.

Perhaps I should Defenestrate him or his computer.

Geoff

Geoff, can I suggest that you take trip to the lovely old city of Prague sometime. Back in the 15th century the common folk there got fed up of their local council and threw most of them out of a high window. That's where the word comes from. Now, if anyone wants to come to my home town and do the same, please feel free - the council building has enough floors to give a good show

By the way, I have used the much-derided AOL email now for the best part of sixteen years and have never suffered a single virus attack. I turn off Windows Firewall and Windows Defender and just use Kaspersky to protect my five laptops (I can't throw anything away).

Phil

[keithmantle]

Hi All ,thanks for all the advice, I've done a new password, removed AVG and put in Avast and Total System Care, is there any others i should put in, would a paid for pro version of any anti-v download etc be any good .Whats best ???

[geoff1711]

Hi Phil

it does indeed although I think it's specific meaning is to murder a person by throwing / pushing them from a window, as against just pushing somebody out of a ground floor window for a bit of a lark, not that I would do such a thing you understand, makes too much mess of the flower beds.

One of Robert Goddard's books - Out of the Blue - went into this in quite some detail regarding the untimely death of a student at Oxford as part of the plot.

Geoff

[George Geddes]

In the longer term I would suggest dumping Hotmail and switching to Googlemail which seems to cope better with spam hijacking.

George