Waging constant war against virus threats
I get a lot of calls about computers misbehaving. No, I don’t mean they sit in the back of the class room chatting and chewing gum. They are misbehaving by being incredibly slow, or doing odd things like opening additional browser windows, popping up ads willy nilly. That sort of thing.
The reason for all this is of course the ever present threat of computer viruses. I had one particular case recently with a laptop. It was doing some very strange things. Websites were blocked (anti virus sites, what a surprise), adverts kept appearing all over the place and a PC tuning program kept appearing and demanding money for the ‘PRO’ version.
Yeah right. I wasn’t going to fall for that one.
The laptop had anti virus software, which was good. However, it had been well and truly compromised. So I installed a different anti virus program and ran a scan in Windows Safe mode.
It found 2766 threats.
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