Computer Repair & Virus Removal Blog;

Computer viruses are not one-size-fits-all. They range from minor, relatively harmless pranks to major, file-eating monstrosities that will bring your computer to its knees. Therefore, whether big or small, harmful or not, viruses are nothing to play around with. The chances are pretty good your computer has a virus right now—and you don’t even know it! If your system has a virus right now, it’s best that you get it taken care of as soon as possible. Virus removal can be a quick, painless process and is an essential component of any computer repair.

A growing threat on the internet today is that of the rogue anti-virus infection, also known as “scareware”. This classification is used for any program that pretends to be an anti-virus utility, but is actually just a very noisy adware infection. It is often also accompanied by one or more Trojan infections, widely known for opening computer security holes and allowing all sorts of other undesirables in. XP Antivirus 2010 (shown below) is one such fraud.

McAfee has issued a definitions updated that has rendered millions of computers with no internet. Read more about how Support Nerds is helping solve this situation.

Dr. Guard is a new rogue threat that our technicians have recently spotted and removed on customers PC. If you have Dr. Guard, it is a rogue virus itself that will infect into your system causing computer problems such as slow running computer, disconnection from internet, and constant pop ups. It also has been known to hijack .exe extension and cause the computer user the inability to open any .exe program.

Vista Guardian is one of the latest fake anti-viruses to cross the internet and infect on computers around the world. Our staff has categorized this as Malware and will be happy to assist in removing it.