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Guest
I just spent the day scanning my drives to remove some viruses.
- Yes I was at fault in that I didn't have antivirus sw on my system.. now
rectified
- Yes I shouldn't have gone to that site and accepted a downloaded codec
install
The av sw found 4 viruses including, as I suspected a fake virus alert:
The taskbar show (bottom right of screen) that there was a virus and
occassionally popped up meassage saying my machine was infected and to click
there to install antimalware sw ... I wasn't fooled on that one
(It pointed to something like xxxxquake.com)
My question is this:
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The 4 viruses were in the System Volume Information folder as part of System
Restore. How come virus software can inject into that folder. Surely it
should be trebly protected? I can't vene browse into myself as administrator?
PS The viruses were 3xPuper and 1x Fake-Alert-B, all Trojan
Virus scan sw is MacAfee
The annoying thing is that I couldn't do a system restore after the virus
scan and removal.
- Yes I was at fault in that I didn't have antivirus sw on my system.. now
rectified
- Yes I shouldn't have gone to that site and accepted a downloaded codec
install
The av sw found 4 viruses including, as I suspected a fake virus alert:
The taskbar show (bottom right of screen) that there was a virus and
occassionally popped up meassage saying my machine was infected and to click
there to install antimalware sw ... I wasn't fooled on that one
(It pointed to something like xxxxquake.com)
My question is this:
=============
The 4 viruses were in the System Volume Information folder as part of System
Restore. How come virus software can inject into that folder. Surely it
should be trebly protected? I can't vene browse into myself as administrator?
PS The viruses were 3xPuper and 1x Fake-Alert-B, all Trojan
Virus scan sw is MacAfee
The annoying thing is that I couldn't do a system restore after the virus
scan and removal.