[BC] Anti-virus/registry fix recommendations...

[Dale H. Cook]

At 03:38 PM 6/18/2012, Glen Kippel wrote:

>Twice now I'm gotten phone calls from heavily-accented people 
>claiming to be from Microsoft, telling me that I have harmful 
>downloads on my computer.  How would they know?

They don't. It's a scam, probably coming from an Indian call center. 
They just want your money.

>A few days ago I got a popup telling me that I had several harmful 
>malware issues that needed to be corrected.  When I clicked on the button ...

Never click on an unexpected popup - it just leads to trouble. This 
had nothing to do with the calls that you got.

>So, what will work to keep me from being hijacked again?

Don't click on anything that you didn't purposely go to. If your 
browser has a popup blocker, enable it II have it eneabled in 
Firefox). I also use a second popup blocker, part of System Mechanic. 
I also use a Firefox extension called NoScript, which prevents a site 
from running JavaScript without my permission.

Dale H. Cook, Market Chief Engineer, Centennial Broadcasting, 
Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html