31 Aug, 2009
Nasty New PC Viruses Arrive In the Form of Fake Virus Scanning Software and How To Handle It
Posted by: Blogging Fool In: Security|Tech Support Files|Web Hosting
Last week several close friends saw a pop-up from their anti-virus software alerting them that their computers were rife with Trojans of all sorts. They were shown the list of threats and then asked to register / upgrade the software with a license key to remove the threats from their computers. The software appeared to be the very reliable, fully functional and free AVG Anti-Virus software. But it wasn’t. Be Wary of the The AVGFree71 Virus and other Virus Scanning Impostors – and a Path to Solving It, Or Avoiding It Altogether
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