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[The Hammer]

Infected PC - Can you recommend a repair shop? (Gangnam)

I know that there are plenty PC shops in Gangnam, but can any of you recommend a shop that has great service at a good price?

Are the shops in Itaewon any good?

Problem:

I clicked on a link someone emailed me from Facebook and now Firefox won't launch (Explorer still does) and my web searches are very very slow.

[eamo]

Have you done a virus scan? Did the anti-virus program show any results?

Does anything unusual show up in task manager?

You could bring it to a PC repair guy.......but you might be able to disinfect yourself in 5 minutes.

[registered]

AVG makes a free virus scanner

Avast makes a free virus scanner

PandaSoftware has an online ( free) scanner. You should try these first before wasting your money

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

Free AVG - http://free.avg.com/

Spybot Search and Destory (Free) - http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

download, install and update both. then scan both in Safe Mode. No need to pay someone for something you can do yourself.

[bassexpander]

Even better, do a 1 month free trial of Kaspersky (one of the best):

http://www.kaspersky.com/kis_latest_versions

After the trial is over, switch to AVG. Kaspersky does a good job of getting rid of stuff. A lot of programs can find, but not many can clean well. Kaspersky cleans well.

[The Hammer]

Avast did the trick! Thanks for the suggestion!

Initially when I tried to go to avast.com or free.avg.com my browser would redirect me to some fake video page.

I got it at download.com


Happy Surfing!

[dimnd]

Avast is great..have been using two years now and it scans all and gets rid of them prior to your getting anything..also do boot scans...periodically and wham you are in good shape..

glad it worked for you Hammer..