virus and problems after downloading software

[footycard steve]

i asked a question in the general pc section yesterday about trying to download an old football game and the 2 replies i got said i should be fine,i had a look today and found champ manager 93 on abandonware site it then said i needed to download DOSbox which i got inked to the download from sorceforge i got a download from mipony and wajam also showed up on my programmes when i tried to uninstall new programmes after getting a pop up from spybot which has never happened before so i did uninstall 2 or 3 items but when i try to uninstall mipony download manager packages i get asked if i want to let it make changes to the hard disk,i restarted the laptop and tried to run spybot but it wont launch now so i ran malwarebytes and it found 45 objects, i tried to remove the mipony manager again but again i got asked if i wanted to allow it to make changes to the hard disk so i just left it,i'm currently running a full microsoft security essentials scan which currently takes over 2 hours,any ideas what i should do to get rid of the mipony programme and get spybot working again once the scan has finished ?

[ajax2061]

try combofix then try glary utls, if that fails then look to see if there is info on manual uninstalls

[footycard steve]

sorry ajax i dont know about the things you suggested,after essentials scan ended it found nothing and i still couldn't launch spybot so i uninstalled it and downloaded it again (went from version 1.62 to 2.1) ran it and it found nothing then tried malwarebytes again and it found 20 objects so i made sure i clicked on every object found to be removed and it asked for a restart,i did yet another malwarebytes scan and this time it found no objects i still have the mipony manager but maybe that wasnt the roblem? i'm going to do another malwarebytes scan now and see if i get the all clear again.

[M T Glass]

Try 'System restore' to a time before you had the downloads if the virus permits.

[M T Glass]

I had a completely different problem to yours which popped up an 'invalid image' message to everything I clicked on. Tried all the 'cleaners' and finally got rid of the file which was in 'program files' when nothing was running to activate it by moving the file out of 'program files' to a USB stick and deleted it into cyber space by clicking delete on the key board. But I stress that it was completely different to your problem though may be worth a look. It contained a dll file which was causing the activation.

[cunny]

Download avast free. Do a boot time scan. This should locate any virus and delete it.

You could be better with fresh instal of windows

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[koppit]

not meaning to sound patronizing but are you running your antimalware progs in safe mode

[footycard steve]

not meaning to sound patronizing but are you running your antimalware progs in safe mode

i dont have much knowhow with computers just running the scans after finished browsing malwarebytes keeps finding the same 1 object every couple of days with clean scans in between,i'm not sure whats happened with spybot as that used to only take about 12 mins for a full scan but the newer version i downloaded wants to take hours so i've not been using it.
i found an old post in this section where grizz helped me through a factory reset but i think i get the option to restore to an earlier date pre-virus/problems so i might try that.

[lagerland]

Or back everything up you want and do a fresh install,that will sort it m8......................

[footycard steve]

Or back everything up you want and do a fresh install,that will sort it m8......................

yes i do realise thats the best but i have hundreds if not thousands of scans of football cards sorted into different files/categories in my pics and i dont remember how to put them on memory stick or if the memory stick will still work as i sucked it up the hoover a few weeks ago!

[lagerland]

Drag and drop or copy and paste or cut and paste.If your on xp make sure no file you is any bigger than 3.5gb m8.There pretty robust memory sticks ive ad a few go through the wash and still working..............

[footycard steve]

i've just tried to restore to an earlier date and the earliest date it showed was the 20th sept so i went for that but after it had finished running i got this error message SYSTEM RESTORE DID NOT COMPLETE SUCCESSFULLY YOUR COMPUTER FILES AND SETTINGS WERE NOT CHANGED.
DETAILS
SYSTEM RESTORE FAILED TO EXTRACT FILE
(c;\windows\assembly\nativeimago_v2.0.50727\presen tationframewo#\90ad;
from the restore point.
the restore point was damaged or was deleted during the restore.

it gave me more options to try advanced etc but i just left it as i dont understand it and i'm certainly not advanced just very very basic on computers so it looks like a full factory restore is the only option, will i be able to save 7 zip etc to the memory stick and what about getting anti-virus and malwarebytes from new again after restore?

[Nutsandbolts]

Hi. Dont worry about 7 zip and antivirus as you can download them again after restore. If i were you i would try and boot the computer in safe mode and run a virus scan and delete corrupt programs etc. To boot in safe mode press F8 key as the computer is booting up. Hope this helps you.

Regards.

[lagerland]

Ok 4get system restore 4 now becuase ive had virusies that will switch it off anyway.Check to see if your system has a factory default setting m8,this option will put it back to as it came when new let us know.................

[footycard steve]

i have started microsoft essentials scan this morning in safe mode but it has red warning bar pc status at risk is this just normal with being in safe mode,lagerland yes i have done a factory re-set a couple of years ago when grizz helped me through it,after essentials has finished i plan to run malwarebytes but will i still be able yo update it before i run the scan?

by the way i'm using my old computer to get online.