The Avast antivirus program has been up dated to version 7 this can be downloaded from http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
Metropolitian Police virus scam on a computer repair at Whitnash in Warwickshire
We went to Whitnash near Leamington Spa on Tuesday the 21st of Feburary for a computer repair, to find a Trojan virus that was designed look like a police fine to scare users in to paying for a fake fine, Pretty easy to remove it took about an hour with updating the antivirus to a newer version and checking all clear happily virus removal a success.
Sky sending out spam letters
Out at Whitnash today and it would appear that Sky are actually sending out letters warning about spam to there customers, But unfortunately they are basing the information on the reported ip address which changes if the user has unplugged the power to the router, as it happens on this computer the customer has unplugged the router on a regular basis.
We checked the customers machine and did find and remove rootkit virus , this is a virus that attaches it’s self to a main system file and can be pretty hard to find, also we have to change the password on the customers hotmail account it would seem the password had been stolen some how.
Removing a Trojan Virus in Whitnash
Good afternoon, We are with a customer in Whitnash removing a Trojan Virus, this involves Editing the Registry and removing infected files.
Root kit Virus in Whitnash
This afternoon we are with a customer in Whitnash Removing a root kit virus from his desktop PC. A rootkit Virus is a virus that attaches it’s self to a main system file and can be pretty hard to find.