I had a big suprize when I got home from work Tuesday. My wife said that she was on the computer, had went to a website, and all of the sudden our PC had MULTIPLE viruses!
So after some judicious verbage, I started to see what the &%&# was going on - and sure enough - a virus - - or two - - or three - -
Sooo - I started the process to clean out the PC and restore it to it's prime operating system. Now Note, I do NOT run system restore - I have had viruses in the past hide in the restore files, screwing up every restore point since the computer was started. I shut off System Restore, and the viruses went away.
ANYway - after I was able to determine that there was an active virus in my PC, I started it in safe mode, and proceeded to "search & destroy" - and after 4 1/2 hourts of file deletion, scans, and reprogramming - - she's back on the web - but I bet she WON'T go to any site she is not familiar with.
On a side note - she got sent to this site by a website offering "first releases" of new books of one of her favorite authors. We of course notified the author right away (They happen to be facebook friends - go figure) so hopefully she & other authors can be made aware that this is happening, and perhaps initiate steps from their end to stop the madness!
So it can happen to anyone!
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