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Having not long ago updated to Windows Ultimate and having had problems with AVG on Windows 7 previous to that, I hadn't yet decided on what anti-virus software to get, or even if the stick with Windows Defender.
Anyway, was just looking for an oat cookie recipe when a message comes up to say that my computer was infected, complete with Windows security logos and windows boxes. There was a button to 'fix/remove' viruses, some of which were labelled critical, which I did click, but then a message came up to say that the publisher could not be verified and it was an exe file!
Huge alarm bells, so I cancelled that and checked the virus detail windw carefully. The outer border was a bit blurred, like when you save an image as a jpeg, which made me suspicious. The other thing is that my computer was fine yesterday, yet suddenly had nigh on 50 virus detections in this one message, in different parts of the hard drive.
I've now activated the Sophos software (comes free from University) and scanned the machine, which detected nothing.
Prior to that, I opened Windows Security myself and the only issues it had was that it couldn't detect anti-viral software and no back up was detected (I save all my files on a Skydrive or Uni server).
Am I right to be skeptical? Is there another way of thoroughly checking my machine?
Anyway, was just looking for an oat cookie recipe when a message comes up to say that my computer was infected, complete with Windows security logos and windows boxes. There was a button to 'fix/remove' viruses, some of which were labelled critical, which I did click, but then a message came up to say that the publisher could not be verified and it was an exe file!
Huge alarm bells, so I cancelled that and checked the virus detail windw carefully. The outer border was a bit blurred, like when you save an image as a jpeg, which made me suspicious. The other thing is that my computer was fine yesterday, yet suddenly had nigh on 50 virus detections in this one message, in different parts of the hard drive.
I've now activated the Sophos software (comes free from University) and scanned the machine, which detected nothing.
Prior to that, I opened Windows Security myself and the only issues it had was that it couldn't detect anti-viral software and no back up was detected (I save all my files on a Skydrive or Uni server).
Am I right to be skeptical? Is there another way of thoroughly checking my machine?
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