A few weeks back my computer got infected with AV Care. AV Care is a bogus anti virus program that performs a bogus virus scan of your computer. After the bogus virus scan it give you a report that your computer is infected and for AV Care to remove it you must pay or buy [...]
A few weeks back my computer got infected with AV Care. AV Care is a bogus anti virus program that performs a bogus virus scan of your computer. After the bogus virus scan it give you a report that your computer is infected and for AV Care to remove it you must pay or buy it.
I don’t know how AV Care got installed but what I do know is that my wife was the last person who used my computer. She might have clicked a link that installed AV Care without her knowing it. Well, she is not really that computer or internet savvy. She only uses a computer to check her Yahoo Mail and her Friendster account.
When I was back to using my computer, I noticed this shield icon in my task bar. I don’t remember seeing it before so I moused over it and it said AV Care. I double clicked it and it performed a virus scan of my computer.
Virus protection is a big concern of mine since I’m online almost 24 hours a day and because I was unfamiliar with AV Care I did some Googling where I found out that it was a bogus anti virus program. I immediately uninstalled it but for some reason my computer’s performance went downhill. It became very, very slow and it was running multiple instances or process of Google Update.
Thinking that I might have triggered a trojan or something, I spent hours trying to fix my computer but with no success so I did the next best thing and that was to format and reinstall everything. With a fresh windows install, everything was running perfectly again.
Tags: anti-virus, av care, friendster, google update, trojan, virus, virus protection, yahoo mail
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Romelo Itong is a Freelance Web and Graphics Designer from the Philippines. When he is not designing new websites for his clients, you will find him blogging about various topics, issues and events. (Follow on Twitter | Friend on Facebook)
