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Helpful Articles
An important message from your friends at Computer Care:
DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING THAT POPS
UP AND TELLS YOU THAT YOU HAVE VIRUSES OR SPYWARE ON YOUR
COMPUTER WHEN YOU ARE SURFING THE WEB!
You should know exactly what your antivirus software alerts
look like. If you don't look it up before clicking on
anything that pops up. When you click these, they will
install something on your computer called rogue spyware.
This program mimics infections and dumps a huge payload of
viruses on your computer.
Furthermore, it completely destroys whatever antivirus
software you have on your computer.
One downloaded, these programs will keep throwing up alerts
saying that viruses have been detected and that you must
upgrade to their paid version to remove them.
XP Antivirus 2009 is very big right now. Its a very nasty
rogue. It will fake blue screens, and all sorts of system
crashes. During these, it will remind you to purchase the
full version of the software. A true blue screen or system
error message will never ask you to buy something. Microsoft
is greedy, but not that greedy.
DO NOT DO THIS! Doing so will give them access to your
credit card number (which they will use), and they will dump
even more viruses on your computer to completely destroy it.
Don't think a computer virus can't destroy your hardware
because it can. These things can spin your hard drive up so
fast that it will destroy itself. They can overload memory
and cause it to go physically bad. They can infect the BIOS
and completely disable your computer.
At that point, there isn't a thing someone like us can do.
Your hardware and all your data will be a total loss.
Even if you don't give them the upgrade fee, you may still
lose your data or hardware from the amount of garbage the
initial download puts on it. I will tell you right now, the
average person doesn't have the skills to remove a rogue,
and big stores will charge you a lot of cash to do it,
because its truly a pain to do.
So please, for your own protection, just don't click on
anything that pops up while you're surfing the net, and if
you do, don't accept any downloads.
Enjoy these reprints from our past
Florida Today articles.
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