Re: OT Re: virus warning

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- On Fri, 6/17/11, andy turnbull  wrote:

> I run Mac, so I'm safe -- it was my
> wife that caught it.
>
> btw -- the consultant that got her back installed an anti
> virus called malware bytes that he swears by. It wasn't
> expensive -- $24.95 in Canada -- but the advantage is that
> it scans the machine before Windows starts. Apparently
> others wait for Windows to load then scan. I don't know --
> but that's what he says.
>
> andy turnbull


And Jeff wrote:

> I hope this info helps someone. I agree with you about F-Prot > too, by the way, Andy, but I use Clamwin and AVG together with > Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware (all these are > free).

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I've heard of Malware Bytes.

My regular A-V for Win is Avast. Spybot and Ad-Aware are
anti-spyware, which is probably not very relevant to this
threat.

I think my risk exposure is lower than average, but I'm
going to try to make more frequent boot partition images,
just in case. That would probably be more availing than
any restore point, and far less drastic than a reinstall
from scratch, a notion I truly cringe at.


 Jordan