I noticed the performance of a certain Windows XP PC was down again, even though I cleaned it from malware only a few months ago. I installed and ran Super Anti Spyware and it found over 1500 security issues!! The browser was hijacked and a fake anti-virus program called Antivirus 2008 was installed. SuperAntiSpyware cleaned it up and its running fine again.
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 February 20th, 2010 October 7th, 2009 Do you use a web based email service? Please read this! http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/05/thousands-of-hotmail-passwords-leaked-online September 5th, 2009 I clicked on a link to access a certain article when all of a sudden a window popped up saying that my hard disk was undergoing an on line scan for viruses and trojans. It reported that my private data is under attack and my PC is infected with security threats. I was advised to download and install “Total Security” to remove the threats. Notice the interface of the PC screen in the image is that of Microsoft Windows? I’m not running Windows on my PC, I’m running Fedora Linux with the Gnome desktop environment!! Just take a close look at the taskbar in the enlarged image and you will see it is so. The scan reported C drive and D drive infected, but Linux has no concept of drive letters as in Windows. My Linux system doesn’t have a C drive or D drive. Neither do I have any folders named “My Documents” and “Shared Documents.” This proves without a doubt that such unsolicited on line PC scans that report problems are really scams to try to rip us off! February 12th, 2009 The best thing any Windows user can do to protect their PC from the getting infected from the Internet is to create a second user account with administrator privileges and to change the working user account to one with only limited user access. Continue reading » |
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