If you start getting pop-ups on a light blue background from a company called Security Shield - adivisng you of all sorts of nasties on your hard-drive - you have picked up a seriously nasty virus.
My work PC (I work for BT) has got it - and if it can get through our firewalls and virus protection, it;s got to be good (or is that bad!).
Our tekkies advise that the only way to lose it is for my PC to be re-builkt from a wiped hard drive - so please be very careful when surfing.
Can somebody explain to me the origin of a virus? And peoples excuses for creating them??
Are they created by some geeky teenager who is socially inept so creates viruses as a way of sayin f**k the world?
That sounds like PC Support. No time / finance to fix anything; format and reinstall a standard build from scratch. The irony is you could achieve that for yourself.
Gentlemen - I would not presume to tell our technicians how to do their job - I live in hope that it may be a simply removed piece of software - i will advise when they have been to see me.