Have you been infected with Antivirus 2009???
By redkathy
@redkathy (3374)
United States
August 14, 2008 10:07am CST
What a terrible experience! I was surfing, and click, click, clicking and all of the sudden a trojan warning! McAfee blocked trojan VUNDO. Whew that was close, or so I thought. Next thing I know the surf window redirects and anti-virus 2009 begins to download. OH NO, I alt F4 FF. Another pop up from McAfee blocking another trojan ZLOB. Ok what's going on, I have a windows security alert... Crap, I'm infected. So, after reading and downloading some spyware programs I ended up doing a reformat to clean it up, what a hassle.
So how do I stop this thing from downloading again. Obviously McAfee can't handle it. I remember installing spyware tools with google tool bar, hmmm that didn't stop it. So I emailed Cash-Harvest an inquiry on the surf frame that was open when this all started. They sent me two free answers that really worked!
free antivrus- http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
add on for FF - http;//noscript.net/getit
So did any of you experience this nasty spyware? How did you fix it?
3 responses
@alkurishy (2068)
• Iraq
17 Aug 08
I am using Kaspersky internet security 2009, I am using this good software for it's all version for more than 3 years, it is so good and powerful, just download it and try it.
Have a nice day.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
•
17 Aug 08
I think that McAffee is pretty useless. I have been using Avast for years now and I've had little trouble with it, though there have been a few stubborn trojans that it could not get rid of. I also found that Yahoo's Anti-Spy is pretty good at digging out the more stubborn critters.
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@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
14 Aug 08
"I alt F4 FF"
FF stands for Firefox--they were already using it when this happened.
Incidentally, Opera has a better security rating than Firefox. :P
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