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by hdrider1016

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I brougth this computer at a pawn shop and there is a lot of pron on it and it keeps popoing up pronn sites.Iwant to stop the pron pop ups and to delite rhe site off.I wuold like to know how to get rid of the soyware virsus also.
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by dmiles

Download and install/update Spybot and Adaware and run a scan to find and delete all the Malwares.

Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware

Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

Also, try the following manual registry settings:

1. Click Start - Run, type REGEDIT and press enter.
2. navigate to,

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\I nternet Explorer\Control Panel]

check if there is a DWORD called HomePage in the rightpane, if it is there right click the same and modify the value data to "0". If the DWORD is not available, right-click on the right pane [empty area] and click new then DWORD. Rename it as HomePage and set the value as "0"

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