curry's committing fraud selling anti virus for tablets

PollySouthend

bluebeary wrote: »

its not just people trying to gain access to your bank details, a few years ago I fell victim to the sircam worm via a link in an email that supposedly came from a friends relative, replicating itself in one of their email address books and coming to me


always best not to carry an address book with your emails, never have done myself but these things can be picked up by anti virus, worth the money really

But that is a phishing scam, nothing to do with anti virus. And o think your a bit confused about the address book. I'm not surprised Curry's get away with selling these unneeded products or ones you can get for free. I regularly see articles in the papers that are sponsored by Norton that praise av.

bluebeary

so the sircam worm is a phishing scam ?

PollySouthend

Sorry didn't read it fully, thought you were talking about a tablet getting emails hacked.

SuperHan

If you'd worked at currys and seen the vast number of customers who don't have AV and come back with broken machines because they've got viruses, phished etc etc and then blame the sales person and want a free repair, you'd understand why they probably want everyone to walk away with an AV.

Fosterdog

OH got a virus on his android tablet so it is possible, he had downloaded an episode of a TV show, it played fine on his laptop but infected his tablet as soon as he tried to watch it. He scanned the file on the laptop and there were no threats found because it was only searching for windows viruses.

We had a free copy of Mcafee live safe with the tablet last year from currys (free case and mcafee with all tablets at the time)but it had never been installed, he installed that on the tablet after a factory reset, he also put it on his windows laptop instead of Avast that he had been using and it detected the file with the android virus in the first scan even though it was installed on windows.

I've always thought mcafee was useless security but it did the job for OH, haven't decided whether to renew it or not though, not due for another three months.

This is coming from someone with 15 years experience of computer repairs and have previously only used free securities unless there was a really good bargain on anything with a high independent benchmark test score.

There are many free options out there and technically if you are very careful and sensible there is minimal chance of ever getting a virus but they are getting more advanced,and harder to remove. For a novice user a security doing the job for you is much safer and easier than nothing at all.

PollySouthend

SuperHan wrote: »

If you'd worked at currys and seen the vast number of customers who don't have AV and come back with broken machines because they've got viruses, phished etc etc and then blame the sales person and want a free repair, you'd understand why they probably want everyone to walk away with an AV.

On tablets?

Of course you can get a virus installing dodgy stuff, but for the staff to say you must buy this one we are selling as the others are not good is deceitful.

In the past two years on my mums old tablet she had installed iPlayer and ITV player and has been virus free without her bank account being emptied.

Fosterdog

PollySouthend wrote: »

On tablets?

Of course you can get a virus installing dodgy stuff, but for the staff to say you must buy this one we are selling as the others are not good is deceitful.

In the past two years on my mums old tablet she had installed iPlayer and ITV player and has been virus free without her bank account being emptied.

I've seen numerous android devices with viruses, the google play store is a completely open source store with little to no certification on the safety of apps, there is nothing to stop someone creating an app with a virus embedded and putting it on the open market as a free download for innocent users to download. I've not seen one come though a website on a tablet yet, only embedded in a file or app but they do exist and are getting more popular as tablets are getting more popular.

Give it five years and windows viruses will be almost obsolete as everything starts targeting the now more popular tablet market.

pimento

My android phone has an anti virus installed. If I owned a tablet, that would also have anti virus software installed.

I don't see the problem really. If you're so knowledgable on the subject you should have gone shopping with your mum.

PollySouthend

The problem is they scared her saying that her bank account could be hacked, lies as she has a card reader for that. And they also lied saying that all the free anti virus was not very good so needed to buy theirs.

This isn't about not having anti virus.

pimento

Yes, it is.

She could have her bank account emptied by a virus or key logger on a tablet. You seem to be saying that because it's a tablet, she is immune. That isn't the case.