Quote Originally Posted by Sylvia View Post
If for some reason Malwarebytes doesn't do it, then here are the instructions for system restore. Windows 7 does periodically create system restore points for you. They should have a date associated with them, so you should be able to look for one that is prior to your Malware install. However, anything that you have installed or uninstalled since that date will need to be reinstalled/uninstalled again after the restore.
I think Malwarebytes was successful -- their scan found and removed 23 items. I've only had a chance to browse the 'net for a few minutes now but so far things look good -- there's no longer any sign of "Vosteran" on IE like I saw yesterday, and I've checked several non-https online stores with firefox and have seen no popups.

RE: reinstalling things after a restore -- Microsoft installed 100 updates the first day I had the laptop and since then I think they have installed almost 100 more. Every time I reboot the pc to finish installing updates they notify me I have to do it again because there more updates. I really hope this is just because it's new so they are catching up with all the updates they released since the laptop was set up by HP. A pc is not much good if you have to reboot it constantly!

At any rate, I will bookmark the link on how to do a system restore and then hope I never need to use it!!

Thanks!!