Wednesday, April 15, 2009

How I Learned that totalprotect2009 is Evil

I never realized just how dangerous surfing the Internet could be until I fell prey to totalprotect2009. I really thought that everything was safe and that you could only get infected by viruses and spyware by visiting really bad websites. Needless to say, I was wrong and naïve. This is how I learned my lesson.

I had been surfing the Internet and doing some research because I had just got a new pet. I was looking at my search engine results and clicked on a link that looked promising. Instead of being taken to the website that I was looking for, I was taken somewhere else.

There were some peculiar ads on that page and when I tried to leave a message popped up. It asked if I really wanted to leave. I clicked “OK” and for some reason it took longer to get back to the previous page. I didn’t really think anything about it at the time.

It wasn’t until later that I thought back on the incident and realized that I shouldn’t have clicked on that pop-up message. I thought about it because another message popped up on my desktop that warned me that my computer was infected with malicious software. I closed out the message, but soon after that another warning popped up. I thought it was weird, but I clicked on the message and my browser opened up.

I was taken to the website totalprotect2009.com. I didn’t want to buy it, so I closed the browser. Then, about ten minutes later, another message popped up warning me that my computer was infected. I sighed and realized that I really was infected. So, I did a search on totalprotect2009 and discovered that it had probably infected my computer when I clicked that original message.

I tried to manually remove it, following the instructions on a website. It took me quite a while to figure out where all the files and folders were, as well as delete them. The registry cleaning was the hardest part. I was proud when I had removed it. But the next day when I started up my machine, I got another pop-up message! Totalprotect2009 had been reinstalled!

I decided that needed some help. I began looking for an antispyware program. I found a few of them that I thought were good and I started to compare them. In the end, I settled for the one that I thought was the best. After my research I thought that SpyZooka would do the best job.

SpyZooka was the only antispyware that was guaranteed to remove 100% of spyware from my computer. It had also won a bunch of 5 star awards. Plus, since the company that sells SpyZooka is a member of the Better Business Bureau, I really felt that I could trust them. Thanks to SpyZooka my computer has been spyware free ever since.

If you want to know if totalprotect2009 has infected your computer, then visit www.spyzooka.com to learn about their free scan.

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