The short answer: Updates are worthless if one does not apply them. Once again I find myself cleaning malware off of a home user
It was infected with the Antispyware Soft fake anti-malware nag and FUD software. The installed Norton Antivirus, which is up to date, did nothing to stop this attack and was then disabled after the malware got on the system. What happened?

As I type this article the notebook PC

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