Yes, this is one of the nastiest ones out there. They come by many names and take a crowbar and blowtorch to remove. This is one of the reasons you keep good backups. XP wasn't as easy, but now running 7 I can reinstall a new OS in about 20 minutes...have most my programs I use installed in less than an hour. I keep an external drive with all my cd images I might want to install, I keep all my installers I've downloaded also on this drive along with any serials I have to enter. My mail is in the cloud, no backup needed...I keep my bookmarks synced with a firefox extension. I've refined my install process to using a USB thumb drive also..much faster than dvd. Yes it's a PITA to have to plan like this but like it or not this is windows, plan accordingly and it's no big deal.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > It does it by getting you to click what you think are clean sites. > > Some sites get taken over by a Trojan very easily. > > Then when you think you are telling them no thanks on a pop up it catches > you. > > They are very subtle and sneaky. > > This is a extortion attempt usually wanting you to buy their program to get > rid of their Trojan. > > Stewart > > > > At 08:41 AM 2/26/2010, you wrote: > >> *Very strange, so far, since turning computer on today (has now been on >> for >> about 10 minutes) having none of the problems from yesterday. How does >> this >> virus or trojan get around antivirus software and firewalls? Do you >> usually >> get it by visiting certain sites? >> >> if I need this, will reinstalling Windows take care of this problem? Is >> that easy to do? Maybe now I can launch Bitdefender. >> >> Thanks >> >> Randall >> > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:[email protected] > Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
