Was your friend able to get rid of the virus? I myself am still not quite sure what anti virus app to choose for my Mac. Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys > I am speaking here strictly from a lay woman's point of view, especially > after what happened to a blind friend of mine who was beside herself with > fury when her Windows desktop caught a vicious virus and she had to spend all > day on the issue, including disconnecting and wagging the desktop (using cab > fare), to get rid of the virus. She has virus protection on her computer, but > this nasty virus killed off WindowEyes so that it didn't tell her she had a > problem. She misinterpreted everything and thought that her computer had just > locked up for some stupid reason. The WindowEyes people, even though they > probably weren't supposed to help her with issues other than WindowEye tried, > but she had to get a reader to look at the screen, whereupon she found out > that the nasty virus had put up a notice that she should pay the crooks $200 > to get rid of this thing. > > Now, the reason I mention this is that this noncomputer professional has > better things to do with her time than dealing with the consequences of > crooks, and I think it was probably something that MicroSoft never dreamed > would get this bad. But in my opinion, Steve Jobs was right. All of this has > to be co-ordinated and put together so it works as a unit. I hope that, if > Apple hasn't done it already, that keeping up with these viruses will need to > be done by them so that everybody, his brother and sister, too, won't have to > get involved in this and it won't become a big business like apparently it is > for Windows users. I mean, my friend had to shop around to get the best price > she could to get rid of this nasty thing created by people who should be in > jail. > > Just my two cents worth, such that it is. > > Regards, > Gigi > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
