Walt's computer was attached yesterday by a horrible virus/trojan called "Windows Recovery". It masquerades as a Windows performance enhancement programme, and scares you into believing your hard drive is all screwed up. If you accept the free "fix", it destroys key files on your hard drive so that you can't access them. Disaster!
WORD OF WARNING: Walt was using AVG anti-virus software, which failed to detect the threat. AVG offers (for $29.99) a recovery programme which does not work! At least it didn't work for me. In fact, the trojan got into the programme, causing "Windows Recovery" to reappear with every attempt to reboot.
Another anti-virus programme being offered online is "SPOTzilla". For $19.99 Walt got another programme which claimed to fix "Windows Recovery". If you Google "Windows Recovery" you'll see the ad for "STOPzilla" at the top of the page. It doesn't work! I wouldn't be surprised if "Windows Recovery" is being passed along on the net to boost sales of "SPOTzilla".
Are they all in it together? Could be! My advice -- and that of my Chinese computer guru -- is to go with Microsoft Security Essentials. It's from Bill, and it's free.
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