Hi, my mcafee subscription has run out so. Ithoigjt I’d see if there’s anything that will do the job for free before I buy owt? The simpler the better, imno computer expert
just to check – you’re not with barclays are you?
free kaspersky with their online banking (makes it sound like the online banking costs money but obviously doesn’t)
Trampus – I presume reading your post you don’t know about kasperky software?
Its not some crappy free software. it’s full kaspersky. you download it as normal from kaspersky website – just like any normal person – then barclays give you the license key for it…
I understand the kind of software you mean and I wouldn’t go anywhere near it but this is official standard kaspersky. why the hell would you not get it!
Cougar, this was back in the dark days of dial up. The software was supplied by the bank on cd. Evidently a batch of cds were ‘contaminated’ during production. The bank were very good to me about this, so I have not named and shamed, though it would appear some of this parish are still unwilling to use their services!
I agree with your comments about Kaspersky.I have happily used it in the past, though I now think it has become a bit ‘bloaty’ and performance sapping.
What you’ve described sounds like the Chernobyl virus. AV software won’t trash your BIOS / HDD, but the delivery mechanism might well contain something else that does.
I never learned the name of the malicious software. When I say ‘trashed’, I meant that the hard drive’s content was erased and the bios was rendered impossible to access or even reflash.
It’s almost certainly Chernobyl. This would’ve been mid-90s, yes?
Horrible little bleeder, cropped up in a lot of places it shouldn’t. There were a batch of hard disks (can’t remember the manufacturer now) that went out with it contaminating the boot sector.
I repaired a metric sh!tload of motherboards that’d been nobbled by it at the time, by hot-swapping the BIOS chip into a live motherboard and flashing it that way. Not for the faint-hearted. (-:
