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Virus protection opinions
(http://www.wakeworld.com/forum/showthread.php?t=791310)  snyder
01-03-2012 9:34 AM  PC Virus protection opinions we got our son
a laptop for Christmas... before the week was over, he had
picked up a virus. I'm gonna guess it came from frostwire which
I told him NOT to install. At first the pc would pop up messages
about malware, spyware, keyloggers, trojans, etc detected. all
kinds of nasty stuff, but the program that was alerting him
itself was a malware. it wouldn't even let him open IE or FF
without re-directing him to purchase their product (likely a CC#
theft attempt). anyway, i was able to get AVG and Spybot to
clean it up. i thought. then about 2 days later windows somehow
lost association w/.exe files. kept asking "what program do you
want to associate this file with"... i couldn't even open
regedit or configsys to try to fix it. he got enough grief from
me on the frostwire thing that he swears he didn't do anyt