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From: Lil' Abner on 6 Mar 2010 11:15 <RANT> I just got Antivirus XP 2010 off a customer's computer. It required a registry fix before I could even install Malwarebytes. I don't know the official category name for all these rogue security/antivirus/antispyware applications. Most of them can be removed; some easier than others. Malwarebytes will remove most all of them if you can get it installed. And, of course the customer always asks "How did I get it?" And I just don't have an answer. The one I have now belongs to an 82 year old church treasurer whose email consists solely of a weekly deposit report to some other church member. His browsing amounts to going to our home town web page http://oraniowa.com and checking the weather (weather station is on my roof). I looked at his history and his email and these are the *only* places he has been. He has Free Avira which is up to date. Also Windows Defender. Windows XP SP3, up to date. SO how *did* he get it? If Malwarebytes is capable of removing all these rogue apps, then how come no one has come up with a real time scanner that will stop them in the first place? I've cleaned up computers with most every kind of antivirus including Norton, Trend Micro, Kapersky, McAfee. I don't think I ever got one with AVG, but I doubt there's any difference. For some reason, I've never contracted any of them on my own machine, although I have a second (disposable) computer that I have infected on purpose a couple of times just trying to figure it out and practice cleaning. I don't understand how these people get away with it. There's always a percentage of people who fall for it and send them money. If there's an account to receive the money, then it ought to be traceable to somebody! I don't know if anyone has ever successfully gotten their money back from a credit card company or not. </RANT> -- --- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---
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