Harvey,

What virus protection software are you using?

Phil.
K0NX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:58 AM
Subject: Off Topic but important


> Hi all.
>
> I want to warn you all of a particularly dangerous root kit virus which
> infected my computer.  Last Thursday night I was doing a search for 
> articles
> about Harry Kallis and Mark Fidrych when I somehow encountered a very mean
> virus called WinPC Defender.  What this virus does is mimic whatever your
> virus protection is so that your computer will think it is protected when 
> it
> is not while inhibiting your real virus protection.  The more you fool 
> with
> it, the more imbedded it gets into your registry, and it sends Internet
> Explorer to bogus websites.  The authors of this virus or malware or
> whatever it is also try to make you think you are buying legitimate virus
> protection because they ask for your credit card number and they have the
> usual accepting of the license agreement and so on.  My tech tried
> everything he knew, but he had no choice but to reformat the hard drive 
> and
> restore it from scratch.  There is another similar one called Tricker 
> which
> does the same thing.  So beware of both of them and other root kit viruses
> like them.
> Harvey
>