has anyone have this happen to your computer?
By timhinyy
@timhinyy (1653)
United States
April 20, 2010 10:53am CST
I had this program get onto the computer that called itself Vista Security Pro and it was telling all kinds of annoying things that my computer had viruses and that my computer was being hacked and that I needed to buy their system now to get rid of all of that stuff and I knew all I had was a program that was a nuisance that tries to take advantage of people that are either don't have much paitence or just don't like to be annoyed as this program was doing to me.
It even tried to tell me that my firewall was down and when I tried to access my security page it wouldn't let me so I knew it was just trying to fool me into thinking I had a problem when I didn't but this program was vicious and caused me quite a few problems making it so I had to make a new profile just to get away from it thankfully I don't have a lot saved on the computer other then music and a few pictures which I was able to save while I made a new profile.
After the program appeared to be gone I couldn't get any of my programs to open normally as they would ask for another program to open them so I thought I would have to reinstall my service pack for windows or something so I made another new profile and everything seems to be working fine now.
has this happened to anyone else?
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3 responses
@BarBaraPrz (45597)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Apr 10
Talk about the hard sell... it's like the door to door salesman who would put his foot in the door when you tried shutting it.
To answer your question, though, I haven't run into this problem.
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@timhinyy (1653)
• United States
21 Apr 10
even if it was true which any smart person could tell that it was not how could you trust any company that would resort to this low of a tactic to try to get you to buy something I certainly would never trust a company that would try this.
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@Vick77 (488)
• Mexico
20 Apr 10
Yes I've seen those kind of malware trying to scare the user for buy a supposed antivirus or something like that. Is completely false you don't have any virus, well the only virus is the message itself, if you want to get rid of it try to use a program called "malwarebytes anti-malware" is free to use and for sure can remove the malware you have.
Other advice: Don't use internet explorer is so bad, slow and insecure, try to change it for another browser, like opera or firefox, or even other one, there are several options more fast and so much secure. I like Opera, but others are good too.
Regards...
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@timhinyy (1653)
• United States
20 Apr 10
yes I do avoid using internet explorer as I am usually on firefox because it just seems that all I ever hear about is internet explorer problems with the security so I just use the firefox most of the time.
yeah it is a very sneaky way to try to get someone to buy a product and I would think it would have to be illegal in some way, but they have to get caught first I would imagine.
I knew that this program despite having put vista on its name had nothing to do with vista and that was really annoying to me as well as you can be certain vista would have nothing to do with that kind of a program.
thanks for the ideas I will try to watch out so this doesn't happen again, but there are so many nasty programs trying to get us lately its hard to stay ahead of them all.
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
5 May 10
Good grief! What a pain! You must have picked it up downloading something or in one of those fake emails. Good thing you got the problem solved. My computer has its own issues.
