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There are several programs designed to get rid of viruses. Ccleaner has a free trial program. AVG and Avast I believe also offer trial programs. I have had good success with Ccleaner and AVG. You can google to search for other cleaners as well.
Most likely you have a virus that is redirecting your inputs to places the virus wants you to go. First try to clear the history in your browser. If that fails, then run a deep virus scan on the unit to attempt to find and eliminate the problem.
Your best bet is to reimage the machine. Even if you get rid of the virus you also get rid of the file(s) it infected. That means those files are no longer available to run and they typically are critical system files. Viruses will hide and then repopulate if you don't completely format and put a clean image on the system. Because you probably don't want to loose all of your data you will want to back it up. Here is another problem because some of that data could be infected as well. I recommend removing the hard drive and use another computer that has a good anti-virus system, backing up your data to another device. Be sure to check your email files because they can bring a virus into your system. Chasing a virus can be frustrating and ultimately unsuccessful. Bite the bullet and give yourself a clean system.
This issue can occur if your computer is infected with a SubSeven Trojan virus (per, Microsoft).
Run a virus scan and rid of all viruses, malware, etc.
If you have a free antivirus, remove it and install a free trial of Kaspersky. This will rid the virus. You can then uninstall Kasperky and install the free one after removal of trojan.
You should have an antivirus program always running on your computer. If you have one it should be able to get rid of the virus. If you don't have one or you have one but it can't get rid of the virus, try AVAST. It is free at http://www.avast.com. Once you install avast, it will want to run a sweep before your computer restarts. That is the best way to get rid of a virus, before the virus is activated.
if your computer does not have any anti-virus software, or you do not
know how to use the anti-virus software that came with your computer, you
can get anti-virus software from the University of Maryland. This
software is available to University of Maryland College Park students,
faculty, and staff for free if you download the software or get the
Getting Connected CD from the OIT HelpDesk. There are web pages on-line
that will instruct you how to download, install, and update the software
so that the software can be kept up-to-date very easily.
Only low-level formatting could do the trick to get rid of that pesky virus that infected your drive. You can Google search for a third party software for low-level formatting, after doing this try to format it the normal way by right-clicking it on "My Computer" and format it. Try to back-up your files on your pendrive first before you do this.
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