I’m certain this topic is covered in this forum somewhere but, being mentally challanged in this area, I might be seeing it but don’t understand. I have a laptop running Vista that I think has a virus. Sometimes I have gotten popups that are obviously ads for virus protection so I do what I can to get rid of them and carry on. Now I have a small pop up tells tells me I have w32.pavsee.c. I’m seeking advise on how to get rid of it and how to protect this computer as well as the others in my home.
Try a boot time scan with avast! Right click the scanner screen, select ‘schedule a boot time scan’ and reboot when requested. (Or open the tab at the top left of the scanner screen and select the boot time option from there.)
Download, install and update the programs.
Always select the option to quarantine any malware found rather than delete it, then you will be able to restore files or registry entries wrongly identified as malware- a rare but not unknown event for any malware scanner.