The NeighborHood Nerd » Antivirus http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net Personalized Electronics Support - "If It Has An On Button, We Fix It!" Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:31:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Virus Removal Services http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/virus-removal-services/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/virus-removal-services/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:01:15 +0000 Alan http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/?p=590 We here at The Neighborhood Nerd are always looking out for new viruses and malware that can cause harm to your computers. We’d like t take a moment here and give out some free advice on how to avoid needing to call us for a virus removal at all.

Several things can be major factors in your computer’s security:

  • Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware software
    • Use of both Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware
    • Update regularly
    • Scan regularly
  • Computer Usage
    • Visiting adult or pirate websites
    • Using music download software (Limewire)
    • Play online gambling games (Party Poker)
    • Play “free” online games (Gamevance)
  • Computer’s specifications
    • Memory and Processor
    • Operating System
    • Number of installed programs

There are a number of broad categories to avoid when surfing websites. Avoiding these things will help greatly reduce you chances of getting infected.

  • Myspace: The main website is mostly clean, but any of the ads on the top or sides will have many different infections. Zwinky and the cursors and smileys specifically have some really nasty ones.
  • Party Poker: And other gambling sites like it are stuffed full of spyware
  • Pirate websites: places that support the downloading of illegal software generally don’t care about the law or what damage they do. Not many of these sites have viruses built into them, but it’s a large enough percentage to give note

Switching your browser from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome can also avoid many security vulnerabilities

]]> http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/virus-removal-services/feed/ 0 Total Security 2009 update http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/total-security-2009-update/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/total-security-2009-update/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:09:31 +0000 Alan http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/?p=298 We’ve now developed a reliable method for removing this latest version of System Security 2009. As with the last version, this particular virus requires the use of an external OS like a “bootable antivirus & recovery tool” or BART, and therefor this method is not reliable with systems that have Norton GoBack or disk encryption installed. Please fill out a service request form or call to schedule an appointment if you would like a Nerd to take care of your infection!

If you don’t already have an antispyware program to augment your security software, feel free to choose from this list of free and effective antispyware utilities.

]]> http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/total-security-2009-update/feed/ 0 Acrobat Infection Advisory http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/acrobat-infection-advisory/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.theneighborhoodnerd.net/acrobat-infection-advisory/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:48:56 +0000 Alan http://theneighborhoodnerd.net/?p=235 In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a few infections pop up that were propagated via Adobe PDF files. The origin of these attacks seems to be from certain ads linked to delzzerro.cn and updatedate.cn. You will generally get a prompt to download or open a document called a PDF which is used with Adobe Acrobat Reader for a variety of purposes. This particular infection uses an exploit in this software to spring a trap on an unwary user which then allows the virus to install a fake antivirus program like the one shown in our Malware section above.

Ways to avoid infection:

  1. Keep Antivirus Software up to date
  2. If you are prompted to download an Adobe PDF document that you were not expecting, do not click “OK”
  3. Be sure to manually re-scan any PDF files with odd names like “536.pdf” or “856.pdf” or something similar

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