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Old 09-24-2014, 08:55 AM
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Help please.

I got a HP laptop recently. It had a free trail of McAfee on it. The trail period has ended and now I keep getting pop ups ALL the time that my comp is at risk and all this shit. Also Getting PC health fix pop ups. It runs a scan and says I have over 900 issues! I have been visiting the fappening a lot

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Is this just bullshit trying to get my money? How do I get it to stop. What can I do to keep my PC safe?
Old 09-24-2014, 09:11 AM
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Try to find another trail? lol

Download malewarebytes and run it at full scan it will clean everything.
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Old 09-24-2014, 09:14 AM
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And yes it's bullshit, it hijacked your browser and installed some fake ass antivirus program. Malewarebytes is worth the continued support as it will block all malicious sites you visit or at least prevent them from ruining your fapping experience :
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Uninstall the crapware?
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Old 09-24-2014, 12:54 PM
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I unistalled and got the free Malewarebytes. Everything was working good. Now when I try to connect to any website is says unable to connect to the proxy server. Never seen that until now. Unistalled Malewarebytes but its still doing it.
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Reset Internet Explorer (if that's your browser)

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Old 09-24-2014, 01:26 PM
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Would Chrome reset be the instructions?
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That worked. Thank you!
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Check "internet options". Go to the "connections" tab. Make sure it's not set to use a proxy server.

Or your hosts file may be hijacked, although it's been a long time since I've seen that happen.
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That worked. Thank you!
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