On 2014-07-15 21:04, Mark Warner  wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> If you say so. Personally, I've never seen such behavior from Avast (or
> any other AV for that matter), which in itself may not mean much as I
> don't claim to have seen it all, but... this is the first time I've even
> *heard* of such behavior, and I'm plugged in to a lot of security
> related groups, both public and private. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but it
> sure struck me as a classic rogue that had snookered a clueless user.
> I've had numerous machines described as acting exactly as the OP's, and
> in every case what they were calling their anti-virus was actually the
> rogue.

I hear ya! My mom's internet explorer suddenly lost her homepage and
defaulted back to About:Blank. So she did a search on google for
About:Blank and concluded that About:Blank was a virus. I told her it
was just a blank page, but some crap sites claimed it was a virus and
that they could fix it, so she believed them. Some people just don't
know how to filter information. Now imagine a fake AV poping-up on her
desktop saying she's infected (just like perhaps our OP's sister)...

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