The BizPreneur

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.