You could have saved a lot of time and money by reading the Sticky at the top of the Cafe page about Virus'
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/2672.html
Sarg i did and down loaded Zone Alarm, it missed it. The microsoft stuff updates itself for free tho.
ZoneAlarm Free does nothing to block programs of this type, contrary to widespread belief it is not an antivirus program, purely a firewall (and Microsoft gave you a perfectly good one of those if you have XP anyway).
A good free AV program is available from:
Sad truth is you have to run them all . Much like hairdressers everyone will tell you their software is fabulous , but they still only get updated at many and various times . Unfortunately although they claim they do the major virus and adware software manufacturers do not cooperate and so sometimes one will have the nasty listed and some wont . We run two ad removers and two anti-virus programmes update every time we use them and we still get the odd nasty that we have to remove manually .
there is always a way , and a google search usually reveals a clever removal tool from one of the 'geek' boards although it can take a few hours to hunt them down . McAfee even though they are virus software vendors as well as McNorton both regularly publish small specialist 'stinger' software bundles that adress specific viruses and they are worth searching for . Its all just a question of timing , the bug hits the net and then the software has to catch up .
We downloaded and installed the XP firewall but it seemed to hate all our programmes that wanted access to the net , and much like all of Billy Gate's software also contained some stuff we didnt want at all ( like software that prevents peer to peer sharing that was developed with the major record companies ) so we have stuck to McAffee wall and zone alrm is also good .
Its a battle that never ends , so dull as it is you have to have a routine or your machine will get stuffed with shite within a month .
Good luck xxx
