I think I have a virus.    

     These words come usually after turning on your computer and seeing a message that indicates you have a spyware infection or that your computer is not protected.  It's important to know that you do need an antivirus and an anti-spyware.  There are programs out there that look like a helpful program, but are really installing virii and spyware.  We will look at just a couple of these and what you can do to protect yourself.

     Does this look familiar?  Hundreds of computers get this message every day.  Most people would think that windows is telling you that you have spyware.  This is a false understanding.  What this message actually means is that you have a rogue program disguising itself as an antispyware program.  You can get these by clicking on an advertisement, or even just visiting a myspace page.  You initially get a popup window telling you that you have spyware and to click here to remove it.  All this does is install these rogue programs that slow down your computer and download spyware themselves.  Even if you buy them, they will only download more spyware to get rid of.

     The very best thing to do if you think that a rogue program is trying to install itself on your computer is to try to close it.  Using Ctrl+Alt+Del you can open up the task manager.  Then click on the Processes tab and scroll down until you find iexplorer.exe.  Once you find that, click on it and then click End Process.  That will close internet explorer and anything else trying to install itself using internet explorer.

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