McAfee Anti Virus Strikes Again
Now that all is back to normal with my computer and the potantial disaster averted I feel compelled to briefly share my experience.
Up until yesterday I was using McAfee Anti Virus provided by my Internet provider as part of their package. About 10 days ago my machine was infected by a rather nasty browser highjacker that slipped thru McAfee somehow. Took a couple of hours to remove that and get things back in order using several 3rd party scanners.
I thought that was an isolated incident until I was infected 2 days ago by a very aggressive virus named MS Anti Virus 2009. McAfee failed to protect my system but only this time I nearly lost everything. This virus took over complete control of my machine. The more I tried to remove it the worse the situation got.
Thankfully I had a 2nd computer handy that allowed me to research exactly what I was dealing with and how to go about removing it. After 12 hours of trying every remedy I could find I finally was able to remove the proper registry files containing the offending virus.
As soon as I was back up and running I removed my McAfee and installed the free home version of Avast. All is running fine now and the protection seems to be at a higher level that provided by McAfee.
Not sure if this infiormation will help anyone reading but I feel better now that I have shared it.
Today exactly the same thing happened to me. I had the latest Mcafee security center will all the bells and whistles downoladed from Mcafee’s website and registered. I had also downloaded and installed windows updates today. My computer was running windows xp and now its freezing up after reboot.
Mcafee tells me I am not being protected and fails to fix itself.
I am very disappointed with Mcafee, If anyone can please share any good tips/links to remove ms antipspyware 2009 and internet guard 2008 spywares. computer was running 100%cpu. now i had to shut it down and remove from nework.any help is appreciated
Comment by Arif — December 23, 2008 @ 2:37 am
You might want to try this resource… this is where I started and it was a big help.
http://www.411-spyware.com/ms-antispyware-2009-removal
Comment by casilmktg — December 23, 2008 @ 2:47 am