Vista Gets Filled With Malware Within Days!
An old friend just instant messaged me:
hi dave, do you know any anti spyware software that’s free for windows vista? i got a new laptop end of last week and it’s already massively infected. i used adaware, that got rid of some, then i was going to use spybot, but it seems like you have to register and pay for it these days to clean (it detects around 80 infected files), but wont clean them without subscription. well AVG and Adaware detect and clean most, but spybot finds more.
I replied, “You ARE joking?”
No. “Windows defender” is completely oblivious. It sees nothing. and watch out for “spyware bot,” it comes up as one of the highest listed cleaners in web searches, and it IS MALWARE! it must get downloaded all the time
My. God.
The first time I saw a Vista machine, it bluescreened within 10 seconds, which was pretty funny with “Dave has Jedi free software skills” comments, but, wow. I actually fell for the propaganda that says Vista is secured against that stuff.
Clamwin is a GPL virus checker for Windows I usually tell people to try. But really the only solution is to start taking steps to move to a 100% free software system.
The Vista Gets Filled With Malware Within Days! by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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