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radon1 wrote:May try setting up a trial version of a well-known anti-virus program. Then run a full virus check. This might help.
After that, use a different computer or device for surfing. Alternatively, you can boot (most) PCs into Linux from a USB stick. I have an old PC (750 MB RAM) and an old laptop (1GB RAM) (neither with hard drive) that work great running Puppy Linux with the latest Chromium. Some video formats, etc. may not be supported. You can save files to the USB stick between sessions (bookmarks automatically saved). I use the laptop when I have to connect to those icky hotel wi-fis.KaiserJeep wrote:If what you are using is really called "Windows Security Essentials", then they got you already. Save whatever personal files you can, format the hard disc, and either reinstall from CDs or upgrade your hardware and operating system if it is 4 or more years old. Then reintroduce those personal files only after scanning the media with a good commercial virus checker that you paid real money for.
Hate to sound like a Linux fanboy, I have been using it for three decades. In the early years you had to know arcane UNIX commands to get anything working, but now everything "just works". I have forgotten most of that UNIX stuff because I never need to use it.onlooker wrote:I fix it guys, thanks again. I paid a hefty sum, but I got a technician from National Help Desk who did the technical work. Then I bought a apparently very good security anti-virus software program in Defender Pro. So my computer is now running great no pop ups or anything. By the way Keith and others you seem like real experts, I am novice so that is why I did it this way. So I guess you will have to put up with my posts still haha
PrestonSturges wrote:You cam also use the MalwareBytes trial version for free, and it plays well with Microsoft Security Essential. MB catches thing MSE misses. The trial version will give you an annoying popup that disappears after a couple days.
Keith_McClary wrote:I have never paid a dime for Linux applications, support services or antivirus, etc.
You make me feel guilty. I did buy this:kanon wrote:I was the same for many years, but then I subscribed to Slackware, just because I decided I should contribute something to the people who put my Linux distribution together.
Also known as the porn site "fap-top" (fap-fap-fap-fap-fap).Keith_McClary wrote:After that, use a different computer or device for surfing. Alternatively, you can boot (most) PCs into Linux from a USB stick. I have an old PC (750 MB RAM) and an old laptop (1GB RAM) (neither with hard drive) that work great running Puppy Linux with the latest Chromium. Some video formats, etc. may not be supported. You can save files to the USB stick between sessions (bookmarks automatically saved). I use the laptop when I have to connect to those icky hotel wi-fis.KaiserJeep wrote:If what you are using is really called "Windows Security Essentials", then they got you already. Save whatever personal files you can, format the hard disc, and either reinstall from CDs or upgrade your hardware and operating system if it is 4 or more years old. Then reintroduce those personal files only after scanning the media with a good commercial virus checker that you paid real money for.
... Do not assume that if you are infected with encryption-based ransomware you can simply pay
the ransom and reliably get your data back. For example, ZeroLocker command-and-control servers that have not been properly configured may never have received your encryption key, so they can’t sell your data back to you. As a result, they are not only stealing your data, they can’t give it back to you even if you pay! In addition, the authorities or a competing threat group may have “taken down” the command-and-control servers between the time your machines get infected and the time you try to pay the ransom
The Associated Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday over the FBI's failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect's computer. AP joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
"The FBI both misappropriated the trusted name of The Associated Press and created a situation where our credibility could have been undermined on a large scale," AP General Counsel Karen Kaiser said in a 2014 letter to then-Attorney General Eric Holder.
"It is improper and inconsistent with a free press for government personnel to masquerade as The Associated Press or any other news organization," Kaiser wrote. "The FBI may have intended this false story as a trap for only one person. However, the individual could easily have reposted this story to social networks, distributing to thousands of people, under our name, what was essentially a piece of government disinformation."
AP's records request also seeks an accounting of how many times since 2000 the FBI has impersonated media organizations to deliver malicious software.
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