Mom called me this weekend saying that the antivirus was driving here crazy and needed me to come over asap to fix it for her. I remembered I installed AVG Antivirus V 7.5 for her and I know AVG doesn't really bother anyone, so I was confused, but I told her i'd check it out.
When I pop'd open her laptop I immediatly saw the XP Antivirus 2008 fake warning saying she was infected and needed XP AntiVirus 2008 in order to clean this infection. I used Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus
to remove it.
I asked mom what sites she had visited and they were mostly news sites with a mix of youtube. It's pretty amazing how these drive by download go right through a fully patched vista laptop with AVG AntiVirus.
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Ok, I Was surfing the web Under Fedora 8 (Linux) using firefox… for those of you who dont know what linux is….. it is an operating system like windows or mac or dos… It is an alternative…. But to my point… This ad claimed it scanned my computer and found my Windows Xp registry messed up and that I had several Windows viruses.. First of all I am using Linux not Windows. Second of all to get any system access it must request in Linux root access which I would have had to agree to give it to get that sorta of information.. And Linux does not have a registry LIKE windows… Plus windows executables cannot execute in Linux (unless in an emulated environment *requires root access for the emulation software I use *which it could only interact with that environment)… And worst of all It identified my computer as using windows xp. How funny…
If it runs on Windows XP combofix is the tool to use!
Ya… Why is my comment at PC Tools AV free. Never mine is deleted??