said by Jaxom:Has absolutely nothing to do with Teksavvy.
I think he's trying to make a subtle attack on the whole Voltage v TekSavvy drama going on with the "IP is not a person" statement he's mentioned twice now.
And that's a whole other can of worms being discussed in other threads.
As for antivirus protection, MSE is great for a
free alternative but shouldn't be relied on if you want to be serious about protecting against malicious programs.
And as sbrook already said, the first thing you ever do when you suspect infection, is immediately disconnect the machine from network physically (or disable the wireless adapter via hardware switch on the notebook). Then you go about finding, negating, removing and restoring.