Viruses wanted please. Yes, really!

[basil]

an eon is generally regarded as a billion ( brit version ) years

or a lousy rip off company from Dusseldorf

are you sure you mean this?

Not often is Basil left red-faced i should have stated 'aeon'......

and surely mr m you meant to say 'are you sure you meant this'?........

 

[John Marwood]

This is, indeed, becoming embarressing

Is there a course I can go on to make up for my poor colonial edukayshunne?

Im fine on math(s)

 

[basil]

This is, indeed, becoming embarressing

Is there a course I can go on to make up for my poor colonial edukayshunne?

Im fine on math(s)

Ms G Duffy will maybe point you in the right direction.......

 

[gdavies]

i have a fair few on discs as i did something similar many moons ago

 

[wmrcomputers]

I'm in particularly trying to find the mega common fake anti-virus programs in particular of the "cyber security" brand - Personal Security, Personal Anti-Virus, Antivirus 2010 etc etc. I come across them so often on peoples computers - and now that I WANT one to install itself on my system, I can't even find it!

Surf the web normally = get swamped by viruses
Go looking for viruses = clean system

I'll be damned!! lol

 

[gdavies]

dude always the way i will try an get a system infected with that said one when i get chance

 

[wmrcomputers]

Cheers... basically any of the rogue malware's that want your credit card info and stop you doing much else with your PC. Other similar guises are Personal Antivirus, Antivirus 2009 etc.
Anything that puts a cheap tacky looking shield icon on the desktop... you know the kind I mean

Basically it's the type causing peeps the most annoyance at the moment, and although i've pro-actively recommended AVG for the last couple of years, it seems to allow some of these to slip on through. At the moment I'm reading reviews which make me believe that the latest version of Avast handles them well but would like to test it. I know Malwarebytes is excellent at removal of them, but the free version does not perform automatic scans and I want to give people something which nips it in the but the second it rears up.

Any help appreciated as always!

 

[Alan B'Stard]

Prior to my Linux conversion, I swore by AVG for years until I was introduced to Avast.

 

[John Marwood]

perhaps you aint lookin in those dodgy places..

nudge nudge

wink wink

 

[wmrcomputers]

My findings are in this new thread here