Trojan Vundo Strikes again
You are going to love this. I am a computer expert and my primary computer repair business is removing viruses and spyware. In fact 70% of my profits come from removing threats. Normally I charge a 59 diagnostic fee and then anywere from 79-138 to remove viruses depending on how infected the persons computer is.
Well one would think I would always have all my computers secured. the truth is I did not. I just bought a new gateway laptop off of tiger direct for 500 bucks. It was a smoking deal with 4G’s or ram 320 G hdd. nice processor and a very light system. I purchased it for my wife. Well I got the system the other day and uninstalled the free trial of Norton that was on the system because I wanted to put PC TOOLS Internet Security on the thing. This is the client I recommend to everyone and use myself. Well I forgot to install the software. Later that same day my wife comes into my office with her new laptop. I thought she was going to tell me how much she loved it but she handed it over and said it was inffected with a virus!! She only had the system for a few hours!!!!! She was looking for birthday invetation templates and one of the links she clicked on must of had a virus. It really is that simple to get infected with out propper protection. After installing PCtools IS and running a scan, sure enough it was the trojan.vundo. In addition to this there was a fake antivirus client installed and she was getting browser re-directs. After running just one full scan the system was clean and she was good to go.
I always shake my head when a client says they had no protection and I have to laugh that it happened to me. I am sure I would of remembered the next day to put it on the system but man o man in just a few hours she was infectd.
If you don’t want to remove the threat yourself and want an expert to do it for you then you can call someone like me who does in home computer repair. Yes the price is a little high but the quality of work is good for most companies out there. It’s great to support local businesses in these tough times. As well you can have this computer repair company work on your stystem as well. They do a great job and are cheaper then any in home tec. We feautre their link on our website because they do such a good job of remote computer repair and they are honest and work fast.















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