350 bucks for what, I can't adjust the volume anymore for some fucking reason I cant get into Mcafee which is also my firewall the computer actually says it is gone for fucks sake! My comp is at the same snail's pace if not slower, Web Root is still going all over the place taking around 47% of the CPU totally at random! I tried launching Champions Online and there is a 217mb patch the dl is horrible I should dl that in no time, I left it to dl and after 30 minutes it hasn't even reached 5%!

Worst of all I am now getting pop ups on firefox, for fuck sake. Have no idea what I am right now pissed, confused, or just stunned. I am glad they got rid of SOME virus but apparently they missed something. They seem to have done more damage than an actual virus.

Snet

United States3573 Posts

November 16 2009 06:07 GMT

Time to cut your losses and just reformat or get a new harddrive T_T

FyRe_DragOn

Canada2056 Posts

November 16 2009 06:10 GMT

u can try downloading avast, it worked for me

paper

13196 Posts

November 16 2009 06:11 GMT

350 couldve bought you a netbook u_u;;

Gryffindor_us

United States5606 Posts

November 16 2009 06:13 GMT

I don't understand the usage of an anti-virus. Not to resurrect Zatic's argument but I use a HOSTS file and I don't have to deal with shit at all, ever. Then again, I don't visit risky sites or download questionable files( not that you do either) . And yeah, sounds like a reformat is in order.

iceburn

United States303 Posts

November 16 2009 06:13 GMT

first off, windows key and r, type msconfig, then go the startup tab and disable everything and restart. well work on getting rid of any viruses first then going back to fix the audio

i recommend running "hijackthis" http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

then posting the log it generates to this http://hjt.networktechs.com/

afterwards, uninstall all other anti/spyware/malware/virus

then install nod32 http://www.eset.com/download/free_trial_download.php

just go for a free trial. if you like it you can buy it,

after all that jazz, spybot search and destroy. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

now after everthing get combofix http://www.combofix.org/

run that in safe mode,

if you don't understand anything post back, once we get rid of all that shit, we can work to fix your audio and internet

oh yea, if you don't want to deal with it, and save time, do a format

illu

Canada2531 Posts

November 16 2009 06:14 GMT

I never trust those people, to be honest. Those so-called geeks are only there to do that kind of jobs because they failed to get their computer science degrees and cannot find any other job to do - so I'd rather kill myself than paying those retards to work for me. If I need something fixed, I just learn to do it myself.

Athos

United States2484 Posts

November 16 2009 06:14 GMT

I think you now know to do a bit of research before you blow 350 dollars on something.

CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

November 16 2009 06:15 GMT

hopefully you have partitions set up or another hard drive installed -_-

vAltyR

United States581 Posts

November 16 2009 06:17 GMT

#10

Forget paying for tech support, TeamLiquid > Geek Squad.

decafchicken

United States20143 Posts

November 16 2009 06:18 GMT

#11

You visit TL yet still thought it a good idea to blow 350 to get a couple of newbs to rid your computer of a virus?

a) a ton of ppl here can help you do that for FREE

b) you need to reformat

c) you could have bought a new computer for that price.

Sadistx

Zimbabwe5568 Posts

November 16 2009 06:18 GMT

#12

On November 16 2009 15:14 Athos wrote:
I think you now know to do a bit of research before you blow 350 dollars on something.

This. I hope you learned a valuable lesson.

CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

November 16 2009 06:22 GMT

#13

On November 16 2009 15:17 vAltyR wrote:
Forget paying for tech support, TeamLiquid > Geek Squad.

lol this is true
while geek squad probably has people who took computer class in highschool, TL has people who major in math, CS, engineering etc...

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

November 16 2009 06:24 GMT

#14

On November 16 2009 15:11 paper wrote:
350 couldve bought you a netbook u_u;;

Yep, I wouldn't really ever trust geeksquad for that type of stuff

blue_arrow

1971 Posts

November 16 2009 06:29 GMT

#15

i wouldnt trust geeksquad with my lightbulbs

JohnColtrane

Australia4813 Posts

November 16 2009 06:38 GMT

#16

On November 16 2009 15:29 blue_arrow wrote:
i wouldnt trust geeksquad with my lightbulbs

haha

Caller

Poland8075 Posts

November 16 2009 06:39 GMT

#17

On November 16 2009 15:29 blue_arrow wrote:
i would trust geeksquad with my girlfriend

fix'd

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21244 Posts

November 16 2009 06:49 GMT

#18

Lol Geeksquad....yeah no. You have the internet, compendium of the entirety of human knowledge at your finger tips, not to mention TL which can guide you along, and you chose to drop 350 bucks for nothing :<

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22258 Posts

November 16 2009 06:50 GMT

#19

Why the FUCK would you call geeksquad up??? Are you kidding me?? T___________T

I know a few guys who work there... most of the people have no clue what they're doing, they just come equipped with a CD with some general programs and that's about it. The ones that do know what they're doing, or even have their certs, don't even do residential calls. You're 10x better off hitting up a local computer repair shop or something, or yeah, just posting here for software issues. My god... $350?