sony Vaio help needed

[lizzylobs]

I've just bought  Sony Vaio laptop from one of my sons friends    so far I've managed to get rid of most of the skank that is on it but when I try to run Adaware it crashes the system -I've run a full virus scan this afternoon and deleted cookies etc  but still can't run Ad-aware .....I don't feel 'clean' till this is done       any help gratefully recieved 

[JohnnyCastaway]

Hi Lizzy, what version of windows is on the system?

look at this one as well:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html 

it does as good a job as adaware, a little bit smaller in size for memory so it may not crash your system.

[lizzylobs]

Thanks for that  I'd forgotten about spybot !
Its got XP home on it btw I'm slowly getting rid of all the trash that teenage boys seem to *need* on their  computers