>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>I need to clean my husband's computer. I'd like to do it from the USB drive. What would you recommend?
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>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>This product (free version available) has received some good recommendations in the infosec community:
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http://www.malwarebytes.org>>
>>Thanks. Somehow it didn't even run last time I tried to run it on the laptop.
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>Difficult to know why that would be but it is not impossible that the malware itself is attacking it.
Yes, I would think so. I was unable to run another recommended tool - SuperAntiSpyware - it produced an error. There is some strange popup appearing every minute or so saying about security alert and trying to go online to some site.
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