New 'Protect Your PC For Free: No-cost Anti-Virus and Other Software' discussion

andyinyorkshire

MSE free antivirus web page should include this excellent free piece of software for home users as it patches dangerous vunerabilities.

Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader are two products hardly ever kept up-to-date on peoples computers and are used to infect the computers recently through:

opening a trojan PDF document (Adobe Reader) via email / web page.

or

visiting a website page using a trojan flash (Adobe Flash), recent cases of Malvertising is where they actually pay advertising companies to display their fake trojan adverts to infect computers by them being displayed on popular websites.

Used to like FileHippos updater program but far better is the Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) used to help stop the antivirus software from having to try and detect the virus in the first place by blocking the windows/doors in your outdated software!

Kate84_2

I got phoned today by someone claiming to be from the technical department of my broadband. They said they would speed up my broadband. When asked who they were and which my broadband company was, he couldn't say. I asked how I knew he was genuine and why my broadband company had not contacted me about this themselves, and he spouted some waffle and reassured me that no-one else could access my computer.

They asked me to start up my computer and download a free software called Teamviewer. I put the phone down on them because just a glance at the google results told me that Teamviewer would give remote access via the internet to my computer!

It all seems highly suspicious to me. Is it a scam?

closed

yes .............

Former_MSE_Becca

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