Yesterday afternoon, I got a phone call from my son who informed me that the virus scanner on his Windows box was disabled, and that it would no longer run. When I got home to check it out, I found that my laptop, which used the identical virus scanner (Computer Associates EZ Antivirus) had been similarly afflicted. I ended up uninstalling EZ Antivirus (why would you use antivirus software that got disabled by a virus) and installed Norton’s on my laptop and F-Secure on my son’s machine, scanned them, and all seems better.
My wife system which runs McAffee seemed to be unaffected. I have another machine which wasn’t powered on and was running Nortons, which similarly seems to be unaffected.
Thanks Microsoft. Thanks Computer Associates. Nice system you’ve got there.
[tags]Microsoft,Computer Associates,Virus,Nyxem,Blackworm[/tags]
I don’t use Windows much, but i just reformatted a laptop for a friend. Used Avast.
Quite good, and 100% free (for home use).