yeah, non-geeks probably need this more than anyone. man I've seen some really screwed up computers due to spyware/adware. almost unusable.
Yeah. Over the weekend, I worked on a friend's computer. He had already paid somebody to come and fix it, but they obviously did nothing to help at all.
He had about 15 viruses and trojans on there, all downloading spyware.
Ad-aware found 850 items to remove. After restarting, it found another 150.
Then I had to research another 15 or so processes and remove them all in safe mode.
It was ridiculous. His computer is actually usable now. And I know that there's so many other people out there with computers that are just as bad as his was. So sad :(
were a lot of those items cookies? ad-aware seems to dislike cookies. also i notice there's no way of selecting all the things you want to delete at once.
Uh..left click select all?
yeah, i wish. doesn't work that way. you must click all the little boxes. (BOXEN!)
It works for me whenever I use it.
ok, i just used it. obviously i was doing it wrong in the past. argh. you're very wise, TDG. check your ez messages for the info you needed
LOL. Dan that is too funny. You actually went through and clicked each one individually? lol That must have been a real pain and rather annoying.
don't feel so bad, I do that too. won't anymore though.
What is this? Geeks gone bad day?
Don't feel bad Dan, the first time I used it I went through and clicked everything too. I accidentaly found the check all option.
I'll admit, I accidentally found the option to check-all as well. Many a time did I manually check every one. haha
hahaha man everyone does it, i've done it, my boss does it everytime (i dont even tell him i just like watching him struggle with his 800 checkboxes)
and yeah, terrible UI design, whats the deal.
Naturally you would think they would check all automatically, but I guess it's too much of a risk in trashing a registry.
Well, sometimes it does check them automatically. I think like the very first time you run it.
It used to do it automatically. There's still an option in the "Cleaning Engine" Tweak settings called "Automatically mark all objects in result list", but it's disabled. I think you have to pay for it to get that option.
Okay...I got it on the first try. I don't know what's wrong with you guys.
You probably missed the box when clicking by mistake. :P
there were definitely a few hundred cookies, but there were at least 500 dlls, exes, and registry keys.
and yeah, dude, RIGHT-CLICK, Select All! haha
ugh, my parents computer was terrible, I just had them reinstall (got too tired of fetching processes)
format
insert debian linux
im almost at that point for my parents computer
for now its strict watch with VNC >:\