FROM THE IGLOO

Here’s an interesting article from Larry Dignan, one of the editors at ZDNet.

Apparently his computer was overtaken by Antivirus Pro 2009 – a vicious piece of malware. It takes over your computer, hijacks Internet Explorer and inundates you with porn popups forcing you to register the software. Larry had McAfee AV installed on his computer but repeated scans during the attack failed to detect the malware because there was no AV Signature available from McAfee at the time. Although Antivirus Pro is not new it had morphed and changed its signature. Larry finally got a copy of Kaspersky – which had an updated signature and got rid of the problem.

Had Larry been running Faronics Anti-Executable at the time, nothing would have happened as Antivirus Pro 2009 would not have been allowed to run. In time McAfee would have pushed an updated signature file, detected Antivirus Pro 2009 and removed it. Larry would have been saved the stress, anguish and particulary the time it took him to solve his problems.

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