We this day returned to owner the Blue Screen'd PC that was begun yesterday. Faster, stronger, better, with double the RAM (512!) and an additional 40GB HDD on which to store all the pix an whatnot.
Then, we received from a new client another PC, this one very slow. Really, really slow. Like, glacial. It is a Dell Dimension 4100 using a Pentium 3 running with 128MB RAM. I really didn't think you could install XP on such a thing.
Anyway, it has since had the RAM bumped to 512 and all the extraneous rubbish extracted - such as unnecessary startups, old files, temp files... and spyware. Some really nasty malware such as KillAndClean and SmitFraud. SmitFraud pops up a warning that you have some kind of infection, and to click on the warning to download a fix. But you don't download a fix, you download this freeloading oaf, KillAndClean. KillAndClean is the kind that pretends to be your friend, telling you how nice you are and how its helping you by preventing the other spyware from infecting you. But its not your friend. Its just using you. A pair of villains, these two, and the PC runs a lot faster without them.
It shows up as 'VirusHeat' in Spybot, which will eliminate the infection(s). Keep your powder dry and your definitions up to date, y'all.
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