Please note that all the software I am recommending in this thread is free. Please if anyone has any idea's I could really use it and appreciate it. I've tried everything just short of a clean install and I really dont want to have to do this. They both found a bunch of crap that got installed and successfully removed them all(I Think?) but the system is still defaulting to IE instead of Firefox and comes up with the screen that says that Internet Explorer is in emergency protected mode and no matter what I do to try to reset or return to using Firefox I keep coming up with the same screen. I am running windows vista with all updates and I ran AVG and STOPzilla. From what I gather while my son was doing a search for a project for school a pop-up came on saying your computer is infected with viruses please click ok to continue and he clicked ok even though he has been told a MILLION times not to click ok to click the little red box with the white X in it and it installed antivirus8 on the system.

Of all the years I have been working with computers my kids have managed to frak up the homeschooling computer and I have no idea what to do for the first time.

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