There seems to be not one week goes by where someone catches a virus. The nasty ones are starting to disable McAfee, Norton, Symantec (Endpoint), Avast, Kaspersky, NOD32, AVG, Avira, Webroot and Trend Micro. Then the fun begins.

Most annoying is when the Windows Installer Database or some Registry Permissions get mangled beyond repair.

Some even replace Windows system files and blue-screen your PC until a Geek tells you “reload, reload!”

Administrator accounts lose permissions, services fail to start, software including anti-virus scanners cant be loaded.

Triage time.

Nevertheless, this takes the average user hours, sometimes half a day to clean their systems.

What to do?

Use Mozilla with the following plugins: NoScript and AdBlockPlus. There are other ways to get the users attention, but they dont get your attention like these. Half your web pages will render as blank spaces where questionable code might reside. It takes some getting used to visually, but I havent been smacked as hard as joe user, blindly clicking on

• Coupon Programs
• System “Optimizers”
• System “Cleaners”
• Toolbars
• Programs from any ole place

Just Say No to strange clicks.

Word.