Anti-Virus,Computing

How to Deal With Virus Got From Internet Sites (Real Examples)22 Feb

Matt Hogan

Matt Hogan of New York, NY got a video purportedly from a friend in high school. When he clicked on the link, it launched a YouTube look alike site.  After it started to load he noticed the URL was not YouTube but www.yuotube.com.

Immediately the virus software on his PC sent up a warning box saying that there was malicious software trying to gain access. But it was too late and he had to run a scan of his PC. He learnt the name of the virus and where it was but he was unable to do anything about it.  He had to manually remove it and then his IE browser was disabled because the virus was attached to the proxy that let hi PC connect to the internet.

‘What’s worse is that by clicking the link, the virus then had access to my Facebook address book and sent out a few different messages to people in my address book. Luckily I was able to put a warning in my status on Facebook telling people not to open… Read More

Anti-Virus,Computer Security,Computing

How to Understand AntiVirus Software – Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus 200902 May

Nowadays, you cannot surf the internet without having some soft of Anti-virus software installed on your computer. The great amount of malaware ready to destroy your system is nothing you should neglect, especially if you have sensitive data on your computer. Viruses have become so powerful and destructive that without the proper protection they can wipe-out your system or simply make it unusable until you format all your hard drive (therefore deleting the virus in the process). The unfortunate part is that viruses such as these prohibit you from saving your precious data – if no back-up was performed then you can simply consider all your data lost. In order to avoid such unfortunate occurrences you have to install one of the best antivirus software on the market, and maybe use it in conjunction with a firewall application. In this particular tutorial we shall discuss some of the features Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 has to offer and how to enable them for further protection.

From the moment you install your AV software, it is configured to a Recommended level which includes:… Read More