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.
Support Nerds Tech’s offer common signs that your computer is infected with a virus or malware. If you think you might have a virus, reading these red flags may help you verify if you need our assistance.
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EXE Files Will Not Open?
One of the latest forms of malware are fake anti-virus programs. A common symptom of this type of malware is that you are unable to run any of your normal applications. When you attempt to open a normal application you get an error message similar to this:
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