passion Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 My young brother has got a problem with his desktop.It's seems to me he's not been careful whilst using uTorrent.I've never used it and i have no experience with it but i thought the best answer would come from here having searched Google with no luck.There's a message displayed on his desktop with a link that takes you to, what i think would be an unsecure site that most probably wants to sell you some spyware removal software. I must tell you at this point the internet is not connecting because of this problem.In the Add/Remove, i have on several occassions removed uTorrent and after a reboot it re-appears.I've located the uTorrent files on the hard drive and tried to delete them to the recycle bin but a message comes up saying ''cannot delete as the program is in use'' etc...I can't find a way of stopping the thing to get rid of them and even by pressing Ctrl, Alt Delete the task manager won't appear as another message comes up saying ''In use by task administrator''I've done a search with Ad-Aware which deleted alot of crap but still this uTorrent remains.Please help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Sounds like you have some pretty severe malware if task manager is blocked.You'll need to use an antivirus or more potent anti-malware application to remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passion Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Cheers for the quick reply.Could you recommend any free versions that i can download on this computer? I can save to a USB MP3 player and install on the infected PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 AVG's free edition tends to work well for most situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passion Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Yeh that's what i've got on this.Will give it a try and report back.Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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