[SOLVED] BEWARE: Rogue Antivirus 2010 is no friend of Internet Explorer 9 !

It's really a shame that some jerk comes along and messes up things for all of us. We just got this new version of IE to use & enjoy, and someone comes along and tries to screw it up for everyone, by sending whatever bad code they can, and infecting our computers.

Not wanting to take the chance of my computer being infected, I removed IE9 beta from my desktop, and installed it on my notebook only. Not having used IE since mid last year, I wanted to see what the "Beauty of the Web" was all about. And what I saw actually impressed me, much more so than the latest beta of Firefox has. As a beta, any browser is going to have some security holes, but that's no excuse for writing & distributing bad code to exploit them.

I'll continue to try to relearn IE on my notebook, the pages look so good, much better than previous versions has. The security will improve, it is just so unfortunate that more is not being done to catch & punish these bad guys. If it were regarded as a terrorist act, which in a since it is, the FBI, CIA & Dept of Homeland Security would have tens of thousands of these dirtbags in custody, and we would have a safer internet to enjoy.

Now, does everyone understand why I'm such a security freak? It's these kind of acts that has pushed me to the point of near daily scanning with at least one security product. These kind of things are not to be taken lightly, but seriously.

Cat

There is serious and there is obsessive compulsive.

Rule #1 - Don't sweat the small stuff
Rule #2 - It's all small stuff

You have what 3 or 4 OSs running on your computer? If one dies a horrible death at the hands of a virus you still have 2 or 3 others.

Also if you read it, malwarebytes will remove it, it simply trashes IE9 as it is removed. Now you have deleted IE9 for fear that at some point in the future malwarebytes will have to remove it for you. I'm sorry but that logic escapes me ... tis better to have browsed and lost than to have never browsed at all.

No, the reason was because I tried another browser recently, as many remembers, Safari. And what did I get for it? A similar fake anti virus that even MSE & Malwarebytes together couldn't handle. The more I fought it, the tougher it got.

I even booted into the OS beside of it, XP Media Center, ran MSE, it went to cleaning, Malwarebytes done the same. Finally, I was able to reboot into Windows 7. All to no avail. As soon as I booted into the OS, there appeared a box, looking just like the Windows one, asking to hit "enter" to apply an update. As soon as I did, the monster attack started over again. The only hope was a reinstall.

And while I have several OS's, it took work to build them. I don't want them screwed up, at least the ones on my desktop. On the notebook, it doesn't matter as much. It's old, and just a test machine now.

But, that still doesn't make it right for virus writers to hit & run. Purely cowards, is all that I can say of them.

Cat

I don't have MSE, so tell me, does it install into your browser like Norton does?

Every webpage I download is scanned for malicious scripts and this works in IE8-32, IE9-32 and in Firefox-32. Where it will not work is IE8or9-64 because Norton is not 64-bit so it can't go there. Your anti-virus did not support Safari and that is why you were vulnerable. But if MSE installs into any browser at all, it would be another Microsoft product like IE8 or 9.

I honestly don't know how MSE does it's job, but most of the time, it does. What I was depending on, and won't again, was Safari's "Safe Search" feature. I'm not sure whose product that is, but Safari is an Apple product, as is Bonjour.

I recently bought a printer, and during the online install, Bonjour was installed, even though it knew I had Windows 7. I hope that's not a security threat to me. But the main thing is, why is Bonjour required on a Windows computer?

Cat

While there are some very decent antimalware products out there, the first and foremost antimalware is the user. Simply put, don't go surfing onto rogue websites of the kind that you know have malware on them before you even start.

If you choose to continue to do so, you can't then turn around and say this or that anitvirus didn't help out.

In all honesty, I could use a pc for 10 years and never get any malware on it, without even an antivirus installed. The only reason I have one is because it's there in my ZoneAlarm Extreme, so I activate it. Other than that, I really wouldn't even have one. I can't remember the last time something was quarantined.

Because Mac users would not be able to connect to the printer if it were shared without it. Bonjour is harmless.

Bump - I see this thread has gotten off-topic. LOL! So what else is new?

I'll stick with Firefox and Opera as my two favorite browsers.