-----Original Message-----
From: Matt [mailto:matt.from.florida@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 8:25 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

Well, this was just talked about on the BGZ list and you can always find
ratings to say this or that or this or that . I don't put a lot of faith in
these ratings. I like to just try it out for myself and see. You can always
find a rating to support what you think. Besides what you are talking about
MS withdrew that statement and what is defender on W10 it is really nothing
but MSE. But here again no ante virus or anything else is going to do any
good if you don't use good security practice . All these are tools to help
you and if you don't use them right it don't matter how good their rating
is. But not going to get into a battle over anti-virus as I use what I use
and have never had any problem with it . MSE has always done me good with my
security practice and knowing what to watch out for and the biggest thing is
keeping windows update up to date and not running myself as admin. Most all
programs cannot install if you don't give it permission and if you are not
running yourself as admin then the program will have to ask you to install
and run and fit don't have admin rights it cannot install and run.


Matt.from.florida@gmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos [mailto:carlos1106@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:50 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

MSE does not rate very high in the detection ratings. And I lost faith in
it when Microsoft specifically stated in an article a couple of years ago
that they had decided to stop focusing their efforts on making MSE a
first-rate virus scanner in favor of offering their research results to
third-party antivirus venders. Of course, they had made this change in
policy a couple of years before that article was even written without
announcing it to the general public. In other words, for at least a couple
of years users of MSE were receiving less protection than they expected
without ever having been informed. Very questionable in my opinion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt" <matt.from.florida@gmail.com>
To: <TechTalk@groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

I have used MSE and mile ware bites for years and have had no big
problem with them.
MSE has always done me right!
It is as far as I concern one of the best free virus protection out
there and surely the most accessible.
It don't matter what you use if you don't have good browsing and email
habits and such you will get infected and get infected over and over
again!
Virus protection is just a tool it is how you use it in conjunction
with your security habits.


Matt.from.florida@gmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvia [mailto:sylvia0647@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:12 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

Hi Beth, malware bites isn't that bad once you get used to it. Its
better than other programs I have used. I did end up doing a scan and
the only thing that was found were some registry entries that are gone

now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth [mailto:thebluesisloose@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:06 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

MSE? Ewwwwwww, that program was ranked so far at the bottom of the
best and worst programs for protection of a Windows machine.
I am so glad however that you have Malware Bytes and you can work with it.

I
never seemed to wrap my head around it and that license thingy trips
me up every time.
Beth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia" <sylvia0647@gmail.com
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Date sent: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:36:15 -0500
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

Hi Beth, I have MSE and just did a full scan. Nothing was found.
I will run
malware bites later.



-----Original Message-----
From: Beth [mailto:thebluesisloose@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 3:33 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

Sylvia, I think you ... have a virus. I have to be careful writing
this because I personaly had one of those, but Blake handed me a copy
of AVG, but that was when I had Windows 7.
strangely, no such problems with Win10. What malwadre protection do
you use?
Antivirus? I heard that Blake's stepfather had probems with MacAffee
Antivirus, and now his pc is dead. ...
Dead.
Beth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia" <sylvia0647@gmail.com
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Date sent: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:38:19 -0500
Subject: [TechTalk] Warning about strange browser popups

Hi list, I hope this message isn't off topic but I wanted to warn
people about some rather strange browser popups. I was doing a google
search yesterday and I got a strange error message that stated that
there was suspicious behavior associated with my account. I was given
a phone number to call so that a Microsoft technician could assist me
in solving the problem. Does anyone know if these messages have
anything to do with malware? I've done a scan and nothing was found.
No, I'm not going to call the number either. lol