Pop-Up Virus!?

Question

I think my pc has a pop-up virus because, it kept opening millions of blank tabs a couple of times before. 
I have McAfee, and when I did an online scan, it said I had no virus protection programs. Also every time I've scanned my computer lately, it had come up with no spyware or viruses detected at all and when I'm on msn and people send me something, it fails to scan it.
I had AVG and Ad-aware installed before this, but got rid of them a while ago, because I thought McAfee would work better. 
Should I remove McAfee and re-install AVG and Ad-aware?

? · Accepted Answer

oh i had this problem b4 so this is what i did. its a virus known as zlob. i hate this virus. its also called smitfraud.
download smitfraudfix form this website http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php. follow the instructions. word by word. Then download this http://superantispyware.com run a complete scan. this should get rid of anything else. i had a same question awhile ago but it got deleted but this how i solved it. i wanna kick the virus in the knee and use amaterasu on it lol. oh and dont remove macafee its useful sometimes.

Anonymous · Answer

I'd get avg back, I have it and it's very good (I think so at least but many others too actually), but u must know that none of these softwares can detect completely all of spywares and viruses, so it's better to have more of those progs, for example I have spybot, avg and spyware doctor (it's ok for me but lot of people says it's crap actually, but dunno) and if spybot for example don't detect anything after scan, avg does and vice versa, just search for some more info and feedbacks on different softwares here and get some

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, remove McAfee and use some other software. orton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html .

kami · Answer

Use following programs to scan your comp:

Spybot Search & Destroy
AVG Antispyware
Ad-aware 2007
Ccleaner

Anonymous · Answer

Error killer: Though not as thorough as Reg Cure did manage to find and fix the majority of errors on some of our systems. Even though our first choice is Reg Cure, http://www.errorkiller.com/index.php?hop... Error Killer still provided us with an extremely thorough scan and managed to fix many errors that other services could not.

? · Answer

You should get rid of McAfee and get back AVG.

Ggg W · Answer

Well did u download any kind of adware removal or spyware portecter Try and figure out what u got here 
http://www.wiki-security.com/wiki/Computer_security/

Anonymous · Answer

Try http://www.stopannoyingpopup.com
Prevents from any unwanted popup ads immediately and automatically.
Block 100% unsolicited popups.
Run quietly in your system tray using very little resources.

Anonymous · Answer

Actually mine has done that at least twice before. I think it was because my computer was being all slow.

Anonymous · Answer

I would suggest using the apps listed on 

http://www.spywareinsider.com/removal.html

They really helped me out. I could have been fired.

Pop-Up Virus!?

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