Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Yes Tom, Protect Shield is a fake anti-virus program that does a fake scan on your PC and prompts you to go to its website to purchase the software that will remove it. I Googled several sites like the one in your link which tell you exactly that - and then prompt you to buy software to remove it!
They are often passed on by forums based on Wordpress - anyone know if this one is?
I'm using the paid for version of AVG, often free anti-virus software isn't as good.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Thanks again Ray.
I did use the free AVG when I was on IE/Windows and it worked very well indeed and would heartily recommend it.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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btw, found out my PC was chugging along this morning as it was downloading service pack 3 for MS Office, so slow I couldn't use any Office programs!
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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It was protect shield that appeared on my computer this morning, alittle green shield appeared on the icons later,but when A.V.G did it's thing that has now gone, hopefully it was caught in time and i am now rid of the problem. I did a whole computer scan, and the offending item was in the virus vault at the finish.
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Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
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Are you using AVG free edition humphy?
I did a whole computer scan also and I have got a trojan horse cryptic.DYR virus in my virus vault. Is that the same virus as you?
I've never looked in the virus vault before so don't know if it is the protect shield virus.
Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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I have Norton anti virus, the whole paid for package. I checked the log and a trojan was blockaed at about the same time this morning. I realised what was happening when I saw protect shield and shut the computer down. hopefully this has stopped it.
No comment from Paul B on this yet !
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Norton should have stopped Protect Shield from running I would have thought, bit worrying that it didn't. I would do a complete computer scan if you haven't already, just to be sure it's not still there.
Jan Higgins
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I should have added that my computer is set to auto scan every Tuesday at 10.00am and did not show any problems.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I have no problems on the laptop or the iPhone.
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my work pc showed an issue with the site about 2pm . my home pc didnt , I ran a virus scan on both without anything showing up
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I was away from the computer most of yesterday so wasnt aware of this.
I myself am experiencing no problems whatsoever. Yesterday morning early I did the extended frontpage using Mozilla Firefox with no problem at all...afterwards I used Internet Explorer on the forum section with again no sign of anything untoward.
With the help of my ace tech man Chris T we will have a look further today to see if there is any internal problem...so far we see nothing of note. We sadly get attempts from those who want to hack us periodically, which is of course a great pity, but sadly this appears to be a by-product of the modern age.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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i did have a little glich monday with one of the links [facebook one],but nothing serious.norton caught it and cleard it.
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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Sue re post 26 yes i use A.V.G free and that was also the same virus name or configuration that went into the vault.
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Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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I had virus warnings on three occasion's yesterday when I logged on to the Forum but all appears OK now.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I had a virus warning (which was dealt with) early this week, first one I have had on the Apple Mac.
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Alec Sheldon
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I didn't turn on my PC yesterday (my day down the town) . I logged on this afternoon to other sites that I use and all was fine but when I logged on to the Forum tonight I got this Protect Shield flashing about all over the place and I could not get rid of it, I could not shut down either so I just hit the close button.
I switched on again and it was still there and it appeared to be part of the official Windows Defender program. I still couldn't get rid of it so I did a system restore to a couple of days ago and now things appear to be OK. I run the run the McAfee paid for Security and also have Search and Destroy.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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I've had this warning twice more now, on reloading the letters page. Once late last night and then again this morning. I don't think it's a false psitive as it's warning of a specific trojan, usually with a false positive it reports it as a possible variant of something. Also never had before on this site.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Great pity. We will do what we can to fix it..if it is fixable...we obviously hope so. I myself am seeing nothing at all. I have the McAfee system running, and I havent had so much as a warning of a problem even.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I got a new PC yesterday (yippeeee!) with McAfee and have seen no problems with this either. I wonder if those having problems haven't set their security levels high enough.