[pchelpers] Re: Adware Virtumonde

Hi Scott

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Cyril,
>
> Saturday, August 23, 2008, 6:47:45 AM, you wrote:
>
> CH> Thought I would try a System restore to an earlier date and sure
> CH> enough that worked. Apparently it dumped the virtumonde pest with
> CH> its files since it has not showed up since that operation.
>
> Even if you don't see any symptoms, you should still scan.
>   

AVG is set to do an automatic scan every day.  It did one this morning 
and found nothing.

>
> CH> Had an antivirus installed provided by AT&T our ISP. Up until this
> CH> glitch it seemed to be doing the job but now I went back to my old
> CH> favorite AVG. Tried installing Avira some months ago when it was
> CH> recommended but at that time decided to go back to AVG.
>
> What was it that they provided?
>   

It was something called AT&T AntiVirus and Firewall.  I have no idea 
whose anti virus it was.
Came as part of the upgrade to High Speed DSL and I am sure the price 
was included with the package.
AT&T also now owns the telephone company which formerly was Bell South 
so they also have my telephone service.

> I generally avoid those, unless the AV is actually one that does well;
> with a bundling deal, you have to assume that the ISP gets money for
> using the AV.
>
>   


-- 
Cyril



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