Brett Neal's Blog

We have been seeing a major influx of infected computers coming into our computer repair Mooresville office with the fake anti-virus infection which is commonly known as the "Win Antivirus Threat."  This infection works in the following way.  The computer repair Mooresville user's computer pickes up the infection while surfing typical web sites.  An antivirus alert window pops up that looks very similar to the actual antivirus/firewall alert from Microsoft and tells you that your computer has been infected with a virus.  It will prompt you to purchase and download the "antivirus" program which will clean and protect your computer against this type of problem.

The infections typically gets worst once the user tries to close down the window.  Even worse, if the user tries to purchase the fake antivirus program it can lead to credit card number theft.  The fake antivirus product will not do anything to help your computer.  If your computer is trying to get you to purchase any anti-virus software that you did not install, the best defense is immediately shut it down.  If you are not experienced in computer repair, then I would suggest that you take the computer into your local computer repair Mooresville shop such as The Interconnect Group.


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