ok so I desperately need help with my computer if anybody has any experience with it.
so basically, out of no where, vista decided to inform me that I had several malwares present on my computer and recommended that I should buy and d/l their online anti-virus software.
Everytime I wanted to go to a new site, it would ask if I wanted to purchase the software or continue without it (followed by a prompt that would warn me that this option was the most dangerous to follow).
this continued for an hour til I finally decided to download a free avg anti-virus program. Once I restarted my program, however, everytime I asked to run mozilla/IE/or the antivirus program it told me that running the program.exe could not be done. And that I was closed off completely from going online, which would make sense cept the only site I was able to connect to was the one to buy the product (**** that)
so, through a means, I figured out how to get on internet explorer and redownload and download avg and ad aware (took fukken forever!). I can get on firefox now, but now I have to manually find the program on my C drive in which it has to run in, it runs slower than ever and im still getting told that im unprotected and should buy the product. I mean, hell, the words im typing right now are coming out pretty slow. Anything that I can do. Or should I just save music/jpeg files and wipe my computer clean and start over?
TLDR; is there any real reliable and free antivirus software?
comp's being kind of a ***** atm
maybe it'll get better on its own? lol
edit: my computer is holding me hostage and I cant go to cgc