First I must ask what Antivirus do you use, and do you have a PC or Mac?
Dell laptop, Windows XP.
Sometimes when your browsing the web, there are fake pop-ups or links that will try to make you download spyware saying it's a free antivirus scan to fix your computer. Not sure if you did this by accident, but that will certainly give you Spyware. Most likely this came from browsing the web, not Spore, but since Spore needs you to be online, there is always a chance I guess.
I kinda figured it wouldn't be Spore, I just said that it was lagging, which made me suspicious. I avoid ALL pop-ups, no matter what they're advertising, and I never click any advertisements on purpose.
Trojans are bad because they can invite spyware, which can produce viruses and eventually badly infect your computer. But a good antivirus should be able to get rid of it.
From what I've been told, they also "chew" a hole through whatever file they've infected, leading to failure of whatever file that may be.
None of my antiviruses I used in the past said that.
My comp's a bit weird. Security Scans act as antivirus scans as well on it.
If your using a PC, AVG Antivirus or Avast Antivirus are really good as they scan for viruses,trojans,and spyware and there free. Norton Antivirus or Mcafee dont find alot of viruses/trojans so I dont use those.
I use McAfee and PC-Cillin. I suppose it could make sense, because multiple scans before this one said no viruses have been found. Yet JavaScript has been failing since before this.
Also, you should run a scan when your internet cookies are all cleaned out and your NOT on the internet, because if your browsing the web and running a scan, it will most likely always pick up something from the web reguardless what antivirus your using and you may think your infected when your not. But in your case you DO have an infection.
I don't run the scans, my computer does it periodically by itself.
You also need to make sure to do your disk defragmenter once a month, and disk cleanup once a month, that will speed up your computers performance, and to download and run CCleaner that removes junk files from your computer.
Check these links out to read more about the antivirus and cleaners, and PM me if you have any questions i'll be happy to help. All are free to download and work great.
AVG Antivirus
http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
Avast (antivirus)
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
CCleaner (cleans junk files)
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Auslogics disk defragmenter (same as windows disk defragmenter, but does the job much quicker)
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download
Thanks for the help. I'll be sure to check those out.
The virus is gone
for now, though. It has been successfully quarantined. I wasn't sure if that was enough, but I got in touch with my father, who scripts programs for computers (including antivirus programs) for his career, and said that quarantined means that my computer has gotten rid of it, unless something gets it out again.
Luckily, the only damage taken was that JavaScript has failed. Flash will not work anymore, and anything that requires Java to run becomes a blank box with a tiny red X in the upper left corner.
My father offered similar advice to yours, only you've expanded on it a bit more. My dad only informed me that I should delete anything I'm not using, to get some more space so my computer doesn't lag as much.
Spore lagged to begin with, but the reason it was choppy was because of the computer scan. When a computer does a scan, it will cause other things to lag a bit. I deleted some files, and Spore ran beautifully.
But anyway, thanks again.
