Just dropping in to say hello.  I can't quite figure out why this page says we're in the United States yet when I select United Kingdom I get taken all around the houses back to the US again.  Not that it really matters, the forum could be located in Antartica and only time zones make the difference.

 

What was an intereesting experience for me this past weekend was having just purchased a brand new PC, which came pre-loaded with windows 8 (new experience for me) and a popular AV programme.  Once I got round to firing up IE and downloaded Google (my preferred browser) and whole stack of adware came along.  All making itself very busy with in-your-face advertiments and other stuff.

 

I then downloaded and signed into my Webroot  account and installed it in the new PC.  WR immediately detected all the adware, malware and whateverware and cleaned it out very quickly.  The interesting thing about this tale was that the pre-loaded AV, which the shop almost implored me to buy, sat meekly by and never reported anything unusual!

 

Needless to say I uninstalled and removed the pre-loaded AV.