Good. Everthing ok now?
If it is you can cleanup the tools you’ve used. You can keep malwarebytes and use it as an on demand scanner. Keep it updated.
Double click OTCleanIt, click the Clean Up button.
You may get prompted by your firewall that OTCleanit/OTMoveIt wants to contact the internet - allow this. A cleanup.txt will be downloaded, a message dialog will ask you if you want to proceed with the cleanup process, click Yes. This will delete all the tools you have downloaded plus itself.
Please download ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
This program is for XP and Windows 2000 only
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
If you use Firefox browser
Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
If you use Opera browser
Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
Click the Empty Selected button.
NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program.
For Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the bottom of each menu.
- Create a new restore point
You must be logged on to an administrator account
Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore.
Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.
In the text box labeled Restore Point Description, type a name for this restore point , click create
- Remove old restore points
- Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - system tools. Launch the Disk Cleanup tool and let it run. When it finishes a box with tabs will appear, select the more options tab. On this tab you will find a section for System Restore. If you press the Clean Up button for that section, Windows will delete all restore points except for the most recent one.
Scroll down to “Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 6…allows end-users to run Java applications”.
Click the download button on the right.
If Information Bar pop-ups up, right-click on it and say it’s OK to display the blocked content.
Select the platform (Windows, in your case), mutli language.
Accept the license agreement, click continue.
You do not have to install the Java Web Start ActiveX Control
Scroll down and click on Windows Offline Installation,
Save the file jre-6u6-windows-i586-p.exe to your desktop;
Do not select Run . Do not install it yet.
When the download is complete, close your browser.
Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs:
Uninstall the old versions of Sun Java, Java JRE, or similar.
Do not uninstall Java TM 6 Update 6 if found!
Close Add/Remove Programs.
In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files[b]Java[/b] <=this folder, if found. Delete any subfolders it may contain.
Do NOT delete jre1.6.0_06 if found!
Do NOT delete C:\Program Files[b]JavaVM[/b] <=this folder, if found!
Reboot your computer.
Double-click on the saved file to install the update.
Delete the downloaded installation file after completing the above procedure and reboot if not prompted to do so.
- Adobe reader
“Adobe reccommends all users update to Adobe Reader 8.1.2”, available here:
Get Reader
The google tool bar is optional, uncheck it if you don’t want it.
*re-enable teatimer. Just do the steps you did when you you disabled it, this time check teatimer.
- If you are using windows firewall, please note that it doesn’t provide outbound protection. A third party firewall will.
A discussion on free firewalls can be found here.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30808.0
or
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=33530.0
Take care