Pains of "Expensive" Spyware and Virus Removal Apps

My friend recently had a "Downloader" virus. He used Norton for 10 years.
Always getting hit with some kind of Virus. Of course, I always tell him what not to do and so on. Always said to NOT use Norton but some people are just stubborn.

He came to me with this Downloader Virus. "NORTON" would not tell me any information on this virus. No name or really anything. Wouldn’t let me Quarantine it. Remove it? "NO"

Hours of research on the internet with basically ending up at a dead end.

End of story. I uninstalled “Norton”
Installed AVG Free which detected yes “Downloader” but gave me a virus name.
“Generic2.DJJ”
Did a scan and low and behold. “would you like to delete this Trojan?
Yes I would. Sure enough it worked.

Believe me I did all sorts of dos mode,safemode, and everything else as ive worked on PC’s for 10 years. I find my self being very good with getting rid of Virus’s.

I then did my ritualistic installation of Firefox and deleted every single shortcut possible to IE (aka) Exploiter.


Moral of the story.
People please. Quit paying for “SYMANTEC” or “NORTON” Product in hopes that these products are going to.
#1 Keep you safe
#2 Get rid of Virus’s when needed.

Plain and simple they just don’t work.

Ive been using “Anti Virus Guard Free” since the 1st month it became somewhat popular and I have NEVER had a virus it wouldn’t remove.

Also beware of all these other Spyware products out there.
Which was another cause of all this.

Use SpyBot Search & Destroy and be done with it.
You think your doing something good by either buying or pirtating these expensive programs. Do yourself a favor like I do and Donate to the free guys. “THEY WORK”

Thanks for reading.
Comments?

 

Welcome to MajorGeeks!

If you do a search of our forums you will see we here at MajorGeeks have been promoting the use of free AV apps for years versus paying for apps like Norton.

We also have a proven methods of removing all forms of malware utilizing free apps. thanks to all the talented authors out there so willing to share their hard work and help fight against these malicisous attacks.

You may be interested, and benefit from reading one (or more!) of our Sticky threads: How to Protect yourself from malware! Utilizing one AV app and SpyBot is unrealistic by today's standards. You really do need a little more than that as what one app doesn't detect another will.

 

Thank you.. Ive been on majorgeeks for a long time. Just never Registered to the Forums or Read them much due to knowing quite abit without them. But after this recent bout with that downloader virus my buddy had. Im finding some nice resources here.

Glad to be a part of it. I just wish I could post on some of the other peoples problems and help them out.

Seems im not able to.

Oh well.
Thanks again.
Dean.

 

The only forum that has posting restrictions is this one but you are more than welcome to help out in the other tech forums if you'd like..

For information on the restrictions for this forum please see the below thread.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=94815 (post #2 & 3)

 

makes perfect sense. thanks.