That sounds like the virus thing I got on my old computer! It pretended to be an antivirus thing. Luckily I realised I had never downloaded it, so got on to it quick smart. Horrible bloody viruses [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by spapad from Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:37:51 PM)
spapad wrote:
Yeh, Norton is our main Antiviral at work too, and it's not cutting the job. Two computers infected in the last week with what the tech guy calls a very sophisticated hacker. It's all made to look like an antiviral system has taken over your computer and tells you how infected you are and then, you download it, it cost's money and you just lost your identity! As much as a pain it is to run it each day, I sure as hell will, and will probably upgrade to it's finer system affects and dump Norton next renewal. Piece of crap, if it can't sort out that much garbage on my system then it needs to go! BASTARDS!!! I'm sick of them!
Becks wrote:
Yeah Norton is a pain cos all that random stuff still manages to get through! I got a super nasty bug on my old computer (wouldn't let me access anti virus websites or anything) and a friend sent me a copy of malwarebytes and bingo, infection gone. Norton did nothing.
spapad wrote:
Well, thank you Becks, it's a very usefull utillity! And my computer is running like it hasn't in month's! Damn Norton 360 is about to get a nasty E-mail from me! They should be handeling this crap!
Becks wrote:
Oh yes, Malwarebytes is EXCELLENT! It finds all sorts of random crap to be deleted! Very sound advice Spa, I agree 100%.
spapad wrote:
Oh, holy shit, my computer was running a bit on the tired side so I took advise from our Tech man we hire out at work and installed an initially free program to comb thorough my computer. I would recommend you shut down security running on your computer or otherwise when it reaches the fire wall it quits responding. BUT MY FRIENDS! I run heavy security on my computer, and I was shocked at the amount of Malware it found on my PC. It was with an initial quick scan up to 1,450 infected files and when I ran the deep scan it came up with 93 more infected files. Almost all of this crap came from my daughter loading MyWebSearch to the choice of web browsers. DO NOT Download "My Websearch" It will slow your system down to a snails pace! The program I downloaded was called "Malwarebytes" You can get it at Malwarebytes.org. It's an excellent cleaner of garbage off your system. I'm shocked how much better my PC is running now! I in general, don't recommend software to anyone, but I was impressed with what this program did for my computer, so I thought I would pass it along!
