Post by pal on Sept 13, 2012 11:01:42 GMT -5
It is becoming harder and harder to tell if your computer is infected.
The time between new strain detection and the inclusion of that intruder into scanning programs almost guarantees the odd bug of some sort sneaks in.
Fortunately, vicious or annoying bugs are fairly easy to deal with if you scan often, do manual scans periodically as well as having background protection on. It is a good idea to run an occasional scan from a product on-line, like the cogeco free scanner. It is based on F-Secure.
Be careful of all the random whiz bang "products" with wild claims about fixing your computer and never respond to pop up's with dire warnings things have been found and need to be dealt with NOW - by them of course.
Legitimate notifications are recognizable as being from your own installed protection and usually originate from your system tray.
This is quite an understandable article Link about recognizing if you are infected.
It recommends a couple or so alternate ways to independently scan -
Scanning before your operating system e.g. Windows starts up, from a bootable media is a recommended practice and is probably worth the 10 minutes to create an emergency boot media.
The time between new strain detection and the inclusion of that intruder into scanning programs almost guarantees the odd bug of some sort sneaks in.
Fortunately, vicious or annoying bugs are fairly easy to deal with if you scan often, do manual scans periodically as well as having background protection on. It is a good idea to run an occasional scan from a product on-line, like the cogeco free scanner. It is based on F-Secure.
Be careful of all the random whiz bang "products" with wild claims about fixing your computer and never respond to pop up's with dire warnings things have been found and need to be dealt with NOW - by them of course.
Legitimate notifications are recognizable as being from your own installed protection and usually originate from your system tray.
This is quite an understandable article Link about recognizing if you are infected.
It recommends a couple or so alternate ways to independently scan -
Scanning before your operating system e.g. Windows starts up, from a bootable media is a recommended practice and is probably worth the 10 minutes to create an emergency boot media.