A vast reluctance
Well, thanks to Avast failing to catch a virus in a download despite the offending archive being explicitly and manually scanned, I was forced to re-install Windows again this morning.
In Avast's favour, it's done a better job than AVG Free did, in that the On-Access part immediately yelped when the malware started getting uppity, whereas the first I knew of the previous virus when I was running AVG Free v8 or so was when I had a pop-up telling me I was infected and helpfully offered me a link to buy some AV software. Oh, and BTW, you can't access Task manager, Safe Mode, Windows Update or anything actually useful. =P
So, one format of the boot drive and quick reinstall of Windows later, I am back online, bookmarks restored* and AV software newly installed and updated.
And now, given the increasingly insistent headache I've had for the past couple of hours, I'm going to crawl back into bed and hope one of the cats comes along to keep me company.
(*) Foxmarks FTW, I tell you.
In Avast's favour, it's done a better job than AVG Free did, in that the On-Access part immediately yelped when the malware started getting uppity, whereas the first I knew of the previous virus when I was running AVG Free v8 or so was when I had a pop-up telling me I was infected and helpfully offered me a link to buy some AV software. Oh, and BTW, you can't access Task manager, Safe Mode, Windows Update or anything actually useful. =P
So, one format of the boot drive and quick reinstall of Windows later, I am back online, bookmarks restored* and AV software newly installed and updated.
And now, given the increasingly insistent headache I've had for the past couple of hours, I'm going to crawl back into bed and hope one of the cats comes along to keep me company.
(*) Foxmarks FTW, I tell you.