More virus nonsense

[tamaranth]

Victim #1 = me: still having fits of cold/shaky/must sleep NOW. And achiness and disinclination to do anything. Which is starting to get me down, so I am being Determined today.

Victom #2 = laptop: am slowly removing 'XP Internet Security'. Why did I suspect it from its very first alarmist lie? Because the message was spelt wrong. Note to software (and virus) developers: I am congenitally incapable of ignoring bad spelling, and likely to assume that mis-spellings and poor grammar indicate malware.

Comments

[ianmcdonald.livejournal.com]

ooooooh. I had that as a 'Vista Security' thing. Feckin' nightmare: it shut me out of the executables and I had to go create a set of entries for the registry using a fresh account. The horror the horror!. Speaking of mis-spellings, you are aware you wrote 'victom' in that para?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Luckily I found a nice helpful how-to-remove page and (using Malwarebytes anti-malware thingy) it was all relatively painless. Though I got very hacked off with Vista Security insisting that I was being monitored / hijacked etc even when I'd switched off interweb (hardware switch).

Re victom, you have caught me, sir, like a Treen in a disabled spaceship: I am a virus ...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

if you need AV, use Microsoft Security Essentials; free, good and not heavy on the resources