Anti-Spyware is anything but anti
I used to worry when my daughter went off to college, What if she gets sick? Now I'm worried more about her computer catching a virus. Well, it happened. It's called system tool and is anti-spyware . Pretty much was what it sounds like. It flashed a faux message YOU ARE INFECTED, YOU HAVE A VIRUS and wouldn't allow her to continue unless she coughed up money and paid them to remove the virus. There wasn't any virus except the pesky System Tool that we had to work through how to remove. When I first move away from home and got sick, it felt drastic. I didn't know the first thing about how to cure myself and I couldn't afford to miss classes. (As opposed to high school where my first thought was great now I can get out of school.) I mean I was paying for this and need to go or my grades, my life, everything will be affected. Yet what does one do when they can't even move? I went to the drugstore and bought a little of everything. (This was before computers ...