PC Memoirs

My PC was attacked again. Somehow this program called System Security 4.51 installed itself in my PC and displayed a message saying it found over 30 infections in the system. Of course, the viruses were fake. This program only wants you to believe there are threats on your hard drive, so you can go ahead and [...]

A new research by antivirus software company McAfee has revealed the most dangerous Internet search words that may lead users to pages with malware. The company examined 2,600 popular keywords on the most popular search engines, including Google, AOL, Yahoo and Live and analyzed over 400,000 Web pages.
McAfee concluded that the most dangerous searches include [...]

I spent the last weekend trying to solve a problem for a friend. He called me to clean a virus from his PC. I thought this would be a quick and easy job…
My antivirus program found several infections and proceeded to remove them, but then the PC suddenly rebooted in the middle of the cleaning process. [...]

I had a serious problem with my PC recently. I picked up some infection while surfing the Net and the symptoms that followed were quite annoying.
Here is a list:

When I opened Internet Explorer, several new windows popped up, displaying ads
Automatic Windows Update was disabled and when I tried to enable the service in Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services, [...]

Today, an effective antispyware program is just as important as an antivirus program. Sometimes both are packaged into one program that protects against all types of infections, but some users look for a separate antispyware solution.
If you already have an antivirus program but don’t have spyware protection, you should review my list of top 10 antispyware programs and perhaps [...]