I think I did something stupid...

Hello...I know enough only to be dangerous to a computer. My ISP offered a free service - "McAfee Privacy Service" - http://www.alltel.net/alltel/portal/customersupport/?hrefURL=/mcafee/index2.html -

I knew better. But I took them up on the offer since it was free, thinking I could uninstall it later. (Famous last words?) Dah...(I'm not blonde, but I should be!)

It crashed my computer for a long long time. Then when it did finally decide to boot, everything was soooo slow. Of course it wouldn't uninstall. Finally I went into the program folders and deleted everything of mcaffe manually.

But my computer is still very slow, and error messages about rcc or something like that and ash something...of course there are still things in the registry (system information...startup programs) leading to those deleted files...I can remember how to manually fix that.

I tried to run trend micro scan, but the computer ran so slow trend micro gave up and timed it out.

So with a software screw up like this should I follow the how to list for spyware etc removal? OS on this sad computer is WIN98

Thank you kindly in advance for your help.

Belle

 

well seems like your registry is bit messed up well yeah u can try cleaning your registry removing ad-ware spyware if that doesnt help

i think you should reinstall the os or
just format the whole computer

 

Good advice Major. Also look for and uncheck GUARDDOG.EXE if you find it in the startup list.

Steve