ER Computer Repair Service

We have seen a rise recently in the number of machines infected with malware and spyware that has been willingly downloaded and sometimes actually paid for by our customers. It all starts with a popup warning from a web site, which states that their machine is infected with 100's of spayware or malware programs and if you download our program, we can clean your computer. THIS IS A LIE! we cannot stress this strongly enough.

A new virus is hitting the net. Known as the Avril Lavigne virus, named the after Canadian singer. She has nothing however to do with this virus. Avril-A (Lirva) is pretty much your standard Windows worm. It spreads mainly as an infectious attachment within emails and takes advantage of a year-old exploit in Outlook that permits its execution without a user double clicking on an infected attachment. The worm also tries to disable AV and security software. Affects only Windows machines.

XP Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2008 and XP Antivirus 2009 are all part of the same family of rogue anti-spyware programs that all perform devious tactics when run or executed to get you to purchase the program. XP Antivirus, which is an older version of the programs mentioned above, performed an older method of creating registry entries so that the XP Antivirus program would find them on the system scan process. This was done to trick computer users and make them think that XP Antivirus is really finding “issues” on their computer. With the newer versions, XP Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2008 and XP Antivirus 2009, they do not create entries but instead displays erroneous results on a system scan where the parasite that it found is totally made up.