Posted by SAZ on 07/11/07 20:45

In article <Xns996A862F26A5Aarbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
arbpen@yahoo.com says...
> I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
> daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and Destroy
> came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies. The anti-
> virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned up,
> installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I told them
> that IE was off limits.
>
> Three days to fix this. Scarey.
>
>
IE is partially to blame, but the viruses are the fault of a missing or
outdated anti-virus program.

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