The Sikh Geek

I was trying out the new Windows Live tools and decided to run the full service scan and to my surprise it came back that I had a Worm virus (VBS/SM - relatively low risk virus)! I’ve been running the free version of AVG and was about to upgrade to the professional edition, honest! I had also been running recently with local administrator privileges (naughty, naughty!) and I guess the worm had slipped in then. I guess no virus program is perfect and had I not been running as administrator the worm could not have installed itself in the “C:\system volume information” area. This just goes to show you why you should run your day to day activities using a restricted user account. Do it now, you’ve been warned (see below)!

The Safey Live tools are pretty good (see below) and will also tidy the registry and check the local disk for defragmentation and then defragment it. I will be using this tool once a week to check my laptop from now on along with my resident anti-virus program.