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pc nerd
I have Home Premium. Last nite I was surfing the 'net when all of a sudden a
window pops up & tells me my PC is infected. The name of the program is Vista
Antivirus 2010. I was using the standard account. I had previously downloaded
& installed Malwarebytes, so I logged off the standard account & logged onto
the administrator account. I started the program & updated it & ran a full
scan. It found 2 files both of which were in the standard account. It deleted
them. Please explain in laymans terms how & why the infection was isolated to
the standard account. Are there super viruses, trojans, malware, etc that are
able to infect the whole PC from the limited account? Somehow the program
messed up the standard account because when I tried to open Windows Explorer,
a window popped up asking which program to use. Ultimately, I ended up
deleting the standard account & creating a new one. So far, so good. Is Vista
more secure in this respect than the XP limited account? Is it possible to
make the standard account in Home Premium more secure by tweaking certain
settings or installing a cetain software program or do I need the Pro
version? I have Malwarebytes, Security Essentials, Spybot, Adaware & AVG
running in the background & it slows down my PC even with 4 MB of RAM. Can
you recommend a program(preferably free) that is antivirus, antimalware &
antirootkit all in one?
Thank you.
David
window pops up & tells me my PC is infected. The name of the program is Vista
Antivirus 2010. I was using the standard account. I had previously downloaded
& installed Malwarebytes, so I logged off the standard account & logged onto
the administrator account. I started the program & updated it & ran a full
scan. It found 2 files both of which were in the standard account. It deleted
them. Please explain in laymans terms how & why the infection was isolated to
the standard account. Are there super viruses, trojans, malware, etc that are
able to infect the whole PC from the limited account? Somehow the program
messed up the standard account because when I tried to open Windows Explorer,
a window popped up asking which program to use. Ultimately, I ended up
deleting the standard account & creating a new one. So far, so good. Is Vista
more secure in this respect than the XP limited account? Is it possible to
make the standard account in Home Premium more secure by tweaking certain
settings or installing a cetain software program or do I need the Pro
version? I have Malwarebytes, Security Essentials, Spybot, Adaware & AVG
running in the background & it slows down my PC even with 4 MB of RAM. Can
you recommend a program(preferably free) that is antivirus, antimalware &
antirootkit all in one?
Thank you.
David