Virus and malware problems...

No, not on one of my machines, are you kidding?  No, this was on a friend's laptop.  She asked me if I could fix it, and I did.  It took a long while, but I did.

Along the way, I installed some additional software, and by way of explanation of what I'd done and why, I left this note folded into the closed computer.

There were more than 150 viruses, malwares, hijackers, and adwares on this PC, and it took eight hours to clean. The computer was in bad shape, but there wasn't anything on it that could have gotten there without help, e.g. without someone actively downloading it. Many came from sites a reasonable person shouldn't be visiting anyway. Whether he or she knew what they were doing or not, that's what happened.

Want to keep your computer safe?

Stop downloading stuff to your computer.

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Virus and malware problems...

No, not on one of my machines, are you kidding?  No, this was on a friend's laptop.  She asked me if I could fix it, and I did.  It took a long while, but I did.

Along the way, I installed some additional software, and by way of explanation of what I'd done and why, I left this note folded into the closed computer.

There were more than 150 viruses, malwares, hijackers, and adwares on this PC, and it took eight hours to clean. The computer was in bad shape, but there wasn't anything on it that could have gotten there without help, e.g. without someone actively downloading it. Many came from sites a reasonable person shouldn't be visiting anyway. Whether he or she knew what they were doing or not, that's what happened.

Want to keep your computer safe?

Stop downloading stuff to your computer.

( Read more... )