Recent content by Dutchoperative

I recently was using an unactivated copy of Windows 7 and tried to use a third party activator as I was planning on installing Windows 8 in the very near future and did not want to have to buy 2 copies of Windows (I know stupid right). Well the activator installed some adware (YTDownloader...

I am worried I might have downloaded a rootkit.....I downloaded an exe. earlier today that installed 3 adware programs (YTDownloader, Speeditup, and something else) despite me specifically conducting a custom install. It took me a while but I finally got rid of these junk programs using IObit to...

I downloaded a file that automatically installed a few programs onto my computer (ytdownloader/speeditup/and something else) I had some trouble removing them but finally used IObit to uninstall these programs and all files left behind by them. I have since ran both AVG and Malwarebytes to scan...