As stated earlier, work on your anti-virus program over these last days before 4/8. Update it and be sure to run several full scans.
Additionally, I strongly urge you all to download, install, update with the latest definitions available, and run FULL scans with several malware detection and removal programs. There are many programs in this category. Many are free and many charge a fee. I have always preferred the former, being a cheapskate! :-)
Those of you who have followed this blog for some time know that I like Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, and Spybot. If you do not have these 3 free programs, and want to get them, the best place to get them IMHO is Filehippo, http://www.filehippo.com/.
Once at the http://www.filehippo.com/ web site, simply go to the top of the page to their search window and search for, one at a time, Malwarebytes, and when the results appear click on the DOWNLOAD button. Then Superantispyware, and click on the download button. In these 2 cases you will be getting the latest version, and that is good. For Spybot, it's a little different, mostly because I have never liked their version 2.x products and prefer and recommend their Version 1.6.2. (Go ahead and get the latest version if that makes you happier.) Again, at the Filehippo web site, search for Spybot. When you get the results page from the search, do not click on the Download button. Over to the right, under the Old Versions list click on View More. Then keep scrolling down (next page too) until you find Spybot Version 1.6.2. Click on that and then on the next page click on Download. Download and install it and update it and any of the others you have downloaded from above.
I like these 3 because, at least this was true when I first decided on them, they come from different personnel teams, working for differest companies, and they are/were located in 3 different countries. This is/was important to me because I figured each team had different outlooks, different levels of knowledge of what was going on outside of their walls, and they had different sources of information. I figured 3 was a good number to provide these advantages, as I saw them, but feel free to use more than 3 if you wish.
I have been proven right on my beliefs listed above when I run all three on a heavily-infected customer machine and each one finds some malware and the items found are different, one product from another. Know what I mean? If not, please write me. There is a contact form on my brpcdoc.com web site.
If you are new to these products you may find some difficulty in installing, updating, and running full scans with all 3, but that is just what you must do. On subsequent scans you must do an update to get their latest lists of the bad guys from them, before you run your full scan.
As April 8 approaches, be sure to update and run full scans with each of the 3. A full sacn with any one product may take more than an hour, so please allow yourself a few days to do this, like maybe April 4, 5, & 6. Then on the 7th be sure to run a Windows Update and do a full scan with your anti-virus on the 7th and on the 8th and on the 9th.
Why go through all of this? It is all good insurance at a very low price - your time. The actual running of the scans can be unattended, so your time is minimal.
Let me hear from you if you have concerns.
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