Department of Justice Virus - BEWARE!

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Has hit my laptop twice in the past few months. Found a guy that would restore it to like new condition for $50, so I've spent $100 total to get it back in shape- He installed Windows Defender as my antivirus, said that any of the other vendors were a waste of money- He also said that if you can install Windows 8 that it can't be infected by a virus. Hopefully this won't happen again, if it does I will probably pay him $80 to upgrade to W8.

This is far from true, you should find someone who actually knows security and will fix your PC for free. This virus is extremely simple to clean up, I don't see how anyone could charge you.

These are good places to start...you'll see that Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials are fairly weak protection compared to even free offerings from Avast or Avira. Windows 8 doesn't do any magic that keeps you from getting a virus. It only comes with a lighter and renamed version of MSE.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

http://www.av-test.org/