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Hello. I need some help. When I was in China last, some Chinese programs was install on my computer. Called "360 something or other." I think it is something like a brower. I was told that it had to be done because of the problems that I was having WiFi access and that it would help control my wifi/PC problems. I wasn't to happy with it but I said ok. In the beginning it seemed to help...Somewhat. When I got States I decide to uninstalled that/those programs. They keep popping up. Utility, status and a browser, etc keep showing up. The pc is running slower.

 

I went on line and followed this link:

 

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/uninstall-programs-windows-10

 

It gave me instructions of how to uninstall programs when in Windows 10. I followed the instructions. But when I get to the point when I have to access the particular 360 program the directions are in Chinese. Not sure what choice should be made. Is there a way to copy and translate what is on screen? . From Chinese to English?

 

What I have tried to do was to google 360.cn. That takes me to one of their websites. WWW.360.cn. It looks like the junk that I have on my PC. I can left click and that will translate to English that webpage for me. I would like to do that when I am trying to uninstall. Left click does not do anything. I also can't right click and drag to copy the words so that I drag the works into a google translate box.

 

 

Any idea what I can do? Thanks for any help you can do for me.

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I haven't played with Win 10. There was a great free program called "Hijack This" that would help eliminate all the fragments of malware, snoopware, adware, etc. Then, Trend Micro bought it. It is still available:

 

http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

 

Haven't used it since then,

 

Could you hire a Chinese-reading computer guy to remove and do a general clean up? You would get more than just 360 removed.

 

No, I can't imagine what installing that nuisance-ware (360)!would do to help you get on WiFi networks.

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What I found with some of that stuff is that they will "phone home" - do a download and reinstall if any of their components are missing. What I had to do was to find the executable file, and replace it with a read-only text file. You can use Task Manager to figure out what the primary executable file is.

 

They are NOT designed to do a clean Remove.

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Thank you guys for the links. I will give them a try. There is a computer repair place that may have some chinese tech working there. That was an option that i was considering but I thought I would try to do it myself first. 360 is some type of software company. They may be part of Qihoo 360. The guy who installed it on my computer was using some utility programs/ routines. It was all in Chinese so I guess he knew how to get around the software. I have my doubts that it helped me that much with wifi. Thanks again guys. I hope you all are having a good summer. Danb

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Superasntisoftware does no "phone home." In fact they just fixed a bug that made it not work because it is so effective.You literally had to download again and reinstall. It handles everything including your registry and a favorite place for malware in places other software does not check. It's the best I have worked with.

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Superasntisoftware does no "phone home." In fact they just fixed a bug that made it not work because it is so effective.You literally had to download again and reinstall. It handles everything including your registry and a favorite place for malware in places other software does not check. It's the best I have worked with.

 

No - sorry - I was referring to the Chinese 360 software, not the anti-spyware. The Chinese software I had from Jiaying's son would automatically download, re-install and repair itself every time some component was missing. Part of that was through a browser extension (be sure to check those to make sure they're removed).

 

I couldn't find everything, so I just installed the read-only files with "executable" attribute to prevent their being over-written. I did try some anti-spyware software that didn't cut the mustard.

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Thank you guys for the links. I will give them a try. There is a computer repair place that may have some chinese tech working there. That was an option that i was considering but I thought I would try to do it myself first. 360 is some type of software company. They may be part of Qihoo 360. The guy who installed it on my computer was using some utility programs/ routines. It was all in Chinese so I guess he knew how to get around the software. I have my doubts that it helped me that much with wifi. Thanks again guys. I hope you all are having a good summer. Danb

 

 

If you've ever listened to two Chinese people exchange URL or email address information using the Western alphabet, you'll know why they so often use numeric ID's. There are more than a few letters that are hard for them to exchange.

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