I have seen a lot of scareware around in the last few weeks which most antivirus software (including all the big names) don’t always pick up. You know the type of thing – a changed wallpaper with the message “Your computer is at risk and has lots of viruses – click here to fix otherwise your car will break down and your children will be sold”. Or similar!

Unless it’s particularly nasty, it just seems to add an executable file to the start up which then stops you from running some of your programs and antivirus. Restarting the machine in Safe Mode enables the deletion of the file.

As a side note, some of the scare-ware has such bad grammar and spelling…