Posted on 04/16/2010 10:14:36 AM PDT by big black dog
From somewhere, this horrible rogue "antivirus" software called XP Smart Security is managing to install itself. It completely takes over my system and won't let me do anything while constantly displaying messages that I should purchase their scam product to clean up my computer.
The only way I can get rid of it is to completely wipe out my hard drive and then reinstall the operating system. However, even after I do this, I can't access the "add or remove programs" section in the control panel.
And a few days later, this scam software shows up again and I have to go through the process all over again.
I have Norton antivirus but this crap keeps getting through anyway.
This is driving me nuts.
Firefox is not immune to this virus
Assuming that's what was done. I had one that put files in the restore partition so that the OEM restore process would have been compromised.
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