Malwarebytes

About once a year, my sons’ computer becomes infected with a malicious piece of ad-ware.  It’s so annoying, but I’ve found that the free download at http://www.malwarebytes.org/ is a great tool to get rid of it.

This week I was trying to get rid of a particularly pernicious variety of ad-ware called “Virus Protector”.  This virus wouldn’t even allow me to do anything with Windows loaded.

I had to boot in safe mode and look back over 15 years to tap my ancient knowledge of DOS commands.  But I did finally get rid of the virus.  It took a few attempts.

I tried some other pieces of software to get rid of it, but they all assumed I could still use Windows to do things.  I couldn’t.

I downloaded the Malwarebytes program from another computer onto a thumb drive and then was able to load the software onto the infected machine from the DOS command prompt.

If you’re having a problem with ad-ware or spy-ware try it out.  McAfee didn’t stop the virus from infecting my machine.