XP Antivirus 2008, 2009, 2010 and now it’s Windows Security Center. It’s a major trojan that seriously impedes production of any kind. Warns of hundreds of “infected” files and to purchase this program to clean it up (it doesn’t… can’t clean what does’t exist). I’ve cleaned many, MANY computers that have been hit with this insidious program. There are several things I don’t understand, foremost is why the clowns who perpetrated this program have not been taken out back and removed from the gene pool.
But tracking off base. Sorry. Avast will notify me of a site that is dangerous that has something wrong with it. Avast also asks me every time if I want to run an installation (or sometimes a program) in the sandbox or normally. Why won’t it do it with this program. Note: I don’t let it get as far as installation, though. As soon as a window pops-up saying “problems have been found,doing a scan of your system” (or something to that effect and you are given an option to continue or cancel. If you click cancel, it keeps popping up. At THIS point, I open Task Manager and close my browser. Restart browser.
Even Vista and Windows 7 UIC doesn’t ask you if you want to run it (usually you have to give installations permission), it just allows install. It will funk up any antivirus program, renames malwarebytes and blocks sites (yahoo, google, and more) by adding to the hosts file.
Why isn’t this detected as BAD, VERY BAD, DON’T GO THERE when going to a site that supports this crap?