Thread: WARNING, WARNING, DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

The watch word is don't trust anything that comes to you via E-mail or some pop-up. If you are interested go directly to the company site outside of the inquiry you got. Also check the complete net address that will usually give you some clues.

This kind of stuff reminds me of the phone solicitors a few years ago, they would call wanting me to buy their vinyl siding, carpet care or whatever and I would always have to tell them that if I had wanted their product I would have called them. I would then ask, "Did I call You?", "No", "then why the F#&% are you on my phone?!". End of conversation. If it pops up, I automatically dont want it.

Sorry to hear this, I think it happens quite often and there are many programs that are similar. It's also hard at first to question something that says it is backed by Microsoft

I use a program called Vipre and it's probably the best anti-virus/firewall/malware protector I've had. Definitely above Norton and McAfee. When you get everything worked out, I'd recommend it and maybe some identity theft protection to be on the safe side.

Yeah, I fell for that last year on the Mozilla browser. I finally got it cleaned off, and got some REAL protection. It's amazing how legit they make it look. I wish these people could be found and prosecuted, but it happens very infrequently due to the nature of the internet. Lesson learned.

Originally Posted by ats200

I use a program called Vipre and it's probably the best anti-virus/firewall/malware protector I've had. Definitely above Norton and McAfee. When you get everything worked out, I'd recommend it and maybe some identity theft protection to be on the safe side.

Most everything IS better than those two. Avast, AVG, Panda, etc etc etc

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Most everything IS better than those two. Avast, AVG, Panda, etc etc etc

Roger that.

I've been using Avast for many years now.

FREE and in my case - bulletproof.

In my experience it would be difficult to reach for a credit card while a 'Battle Stations' claxon is going off with a big Avast window flashing red telling me that a malicious program has been terminated. It updates itself almost every day... sometimes twice a day.

I'm a gamer and have never had to turn it off once. I remember the days of Norton and McAfee when they seemingly took over every available resource turning my gaming rig into a tin can and a waxed string.

www.avast.com

Originally Posted by tonycraigo

I'm a gamer and have never had to turn it off once. I remember the days of Norton and McAfee when they seemingly took over every available resource turning my gaming rig into a tin can and a waxed string.

I hear ya there. I switched to Vipre because it basically runs unnoticed and doesn't interfere with a thing. It's not free, though which is a negative

The same thing happened to my daughter's laptop. I was unable to run Malwarebytes, even in safe mode. It took me two hours to get it cleaned out and everything back in biz. I did a bit of on line research and located a dummy validation code. Once entered it made the malware think I had purchased it and was then able to run Malwarebytes and clean out this mess.