Friday, May 29, 2009

PC Viruses

There is very little in this world that tick me off as much as these pests!
Cranked up the PC this morning to a fake antivirus warning. Luckily I had seen that before on an older PC. Started Googling the stuff and it was indeed a virus that wanted you to buy their crappy anti virus. BUT, it was very well done, the only Google sites it would let you go to regarding them was their own "cure". if I tried to go to AVG or Microsoft, I would get an Internet Explorer error and it would shut down. impressive!
Luckily I got on a different PC and did some research. Someone found the address for the "manufacturer" and actually got the process to remove it. It was easy, after 2 hours of panic and frustration!

You know the news channels "expose" shows exposing pedafiles? Cant stomach to watch them, but I would pay good money for a show like that exposing the creators of these viruses. me bet is most of them are genereated by Anti Virus companies. But in the show, once exposed they would be castrated in public and allow all the poor saps that got their virus one free punch to the face. That would be good TV!

SO, beware of "Personal Antivirus" it is not what it seems. Email me if you get it, I will walk you thru the 10 second process.