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AV Security infected computer; seems clean, need help for prevention
At 6:30pm EST today (11/14/11) AV Security popped up after a message that stated Adobe needed an update. After 2 restarts, deletions, and various virus scans; Malwarebytes seems to now completely removed AV Security. But this still scares me. The thing acted like I was in safe mode once, and it seemed like its ads and "warnings" were like mocking me because I was trying to get rid of them.
Even though things seem to be fine now, I need to know a) how it got it, and more imporant, b) how to prevent this again for the future. I use Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes; both updated. There is also Windows Defender, but that's off and I don't what nor how good that is. My firewall is a Network Firewall. I'm only stating this just in case my computer's info on here is outdated since I last did it.
Thank you.