[Blindtlk] browser popups

[Heather Field]

Hello Justin,
Security Essentials is a useful application but it really isn't enough to 
protect your computer against the ever increasingly sophisticated malware. 
You really need to be running an antivirus program and a malware program as 
well as Security Essentials, which still does have its place, according to 
all my research.
You can download several free antivirus programs but none of them are very 
accessible. AVG is a good one.
Malware bytes is reportedly the best antimalware program and you can 
download a free trial and run it. Malware bytes became inaccessible for a 
while after its first upgrade but it is now accessible again. Spybot is 
another accessible antispyware/malware program and is reportedly pretty 
good. It's shareware.
Bear in mind, however, that no single program will get all the spyware etc. 
so they recommend that you run a couple.

Malware has really become a serious issue and even the guys who make a 
living from helping folks clean up their computers are now saying that it's 
hard to guarantee that even they get everything. Horrible malware like 
rootkits can hide and replicate. If you find that you continue to have 
issues after running Malware Bytes and AVG, the only way you can guarantee 
that you have a clean harddrive will be to back up your content, wipe the 
drive and reload everything. If you do have to resort to that, you will need 
to totally reformat the drive using a program that wipes it clean, which 
will take several hours. Just using the "reformat" command on windows will 
not wipe the drive. That means that any malware will not get removed. I 
recently researched this issue and ended up having to do a complete wipe and 
reload because of malware. Needless to say, I did not want to do this myself 
and had my buddy who is sighted and a computer geek take care of it for me. 
I now run the paid version of Malware Bytes and find it works well.You may 
want to sign up to the gUI talk list. They'll probably have some more 
specific info for you.
Sorry to hear you'll be dealing with this. It's a real pain.
I hope it's nothing too serious.
Best,
Heather

-----Original Message----- 
From: justin williams via blindtlk
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 9:33 AM
To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
Cc: justin williams
Subject: [Blindtlk] browser popups

Other than Microsoft security essentials, , what else can I use to clean my
pc, and remove the pop up with Mozilla Firefox that occur?

It appears that I have some spyware and malware stuff on here.

Just when I use the internet with Mozilla.

I'm using Windows 7 with jaws 16.I've used Microsoft  essentials, but I'm
not sure if it is fully updated or not.

I don't want to redownload it if I don't have to, but I will if someone can
tell me whether or not that will interfere with the prior version; I don't
want two of them on my pc because I won't be able to tell them apart.

Thanks in advance.



Justin.

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