Help Please Laptop Infected

aliEnRIK

huggsy wrote: »

My son was looking through the listings for a new van and his friends were also looking at cars, I have been on ebay myself quite a bit last week and must have been very lucky.

Did he open a dodgy email 1st, or was this purely just browsing ebay?

wonderwallet

I got this too on my PC, as did 2 of my friends this weekend!

Does anyone know how we got infected with this virus even though we are running up-to-date antivirus programmes? (all using Avast). One friend suggested that we should buy Norton Security for 3 Computers from Amazon and split the cost between us - do you think this would offer more protection than Avast?

huggsy

All our anti virus uptodate too and all using avast. I have asked my son and they were just browsing e bay they did not do anything different and did not open any emails first. I am worried about using ebay now though incase my laptop is next.

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When a new virus variant comes out, nothing detects it, initially. People with paid for AV get infected too

AV comparatives detection rate from Aug 2010

Free

avast 99.3%
avg 98.3
mse 97.6


Paid for

gdata 99.9
avira antivir premium 99.8%
mcafee 99.4
bitdefender 99.3
panda 99.2
norton 98.7
eset/nod 98.6
kaspersky 98.3
sophos 96.8
trend 90.3

Browse in a sandbox, then any changes made to the machine will be dropped when you close the browser

http://www.sandboxie.com/