You would think being an IT oriented person that I would not be affected / infected, that my system would be bullet proof. Well you know that would be nice, but I am not the only one who uses my home computer. So today started out with the realization that something evil now lurked on my home computer. Only two days ago I removed a nasty program called WIN7, which is  fake anti virus program from someone elses computer, and now “Et tu Brute?”. Yes like poor old Julius who ate one too many smarties, my system was now infected.

Someone was nice enough to write a program which told my anti virus they were friends, and then started to grow on my system. I removed about 30 smaller programs it had seeded. It was lovely. As much fun as, well not sure. So if you think something can be gotten on the internet for free, beware, nothing is free. It comes with gifts, little ones that steal your data.

So the moral of the story is avoid P2P sharing sites, bit torrents and free music  downloads! No downloads unless you know the mother of the person who wrote the software OK! 🙂