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Where can I buy Yahoo antivirus?

Why am I getting lots of ads from Yahoo asking me to buy antivirus cuz I dont have it but I have Norton!!?

  • Its real annoying. It just started today. It says: Due to insecure Internet browsing your PC can easily get infected with viruses, worms and trojans without your knowledge, and that can lead to system slowdown, freezes and crashes. Also insecure Internet activity can result in revealing your personal information. To get full advanced real-time protection for PC and Internet activity, activate WinPC Defender.

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    If you keep getting popups like this all the time and not just when you visit a particular site... it's probably some adware that slipped past Norton and you're already infected. The popup "warnings" are a virus and they try to sell you something to make them stop. You could try a free online malware scan and removal at Trend Micro... http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Might be able to find and remove what Norton missed. You could also install Spybot Search and Destroy and try scanning with that. It also has real-time protection that is a nice backup to run with any other anti-virus program. http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html I also install Spyware Blaster which mainly blocks a list of known bad stuff from running on your browser. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html I've found if you trust a single ant-virus program as your only means of defense... it's only a matter of time before something slips past. Running AVG, SpyBot and Spywareblaster together... I haven't had any problems for a long time.

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They're pop-ups, man, ignore them. I get told that my PC may be infected all the time. I have a mac.

archipelago

DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THE OFFENDING SOFTWARE. Such softwares are known as Rogue Software, or Scareware. They work by pissing you off SO much ("www.microsoft.com is attempting to download a virus! Now redirecting you to such-and-such.com where you can purchase the full version...") or scaring you ("92837891762349 viruses found: Infostealer.bank.exe, Porn.tracker.exe...") until you give up and just buy their product, which doesn't even work anyway, all it does is remove the malware it downloaded onto your system in the first place! (And it doesn't even always do that...) What you should do is download Malwarebytes. It's a free malware removal program. http://www.malwarebytes.org/

ADAMANT ÆVE!

Get a mac you shouldnt have these problems with safari. I dont

Chris

A similiar thing occured to me. Get MalWareBytes - its free and scan your system. There are probably SmitFruads on your system which happens to most ppl who use the internet they just dont know it.

Kyle

When you open this email, scroll down toward bottom and click on opt out. It will help, but takes a little while

TINY

prob just a money advertisement contract with norton norton sucks by the way....stick to avast

rnn19

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