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Hi All,<br />
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Has anyone come up against Adware.ALOT google doesnt seem to have much on it.<br />
I ran a scan on a clients PC with Malwarebytes, just 4 infiltrations of Adware.ALOT 3 on a maxtor backup device and one on the c drive. <br />
The client nformed me that he had lost about 10 days worth of emails in Outlook I was able to retrieve all except 3 days of the maxtor fore him ,but it seems this bug had disabled the backup as well as it had not backed up for a few days.<br />
Also scanned with ESET AV &nbsp;- no viruses <br />
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Since doing this cleanup a couple of hours later my clients PC is in a spin cycle offering the options of enter safe mode with or without networking last know good config and a 10 second countdown and cannot get into the PC can anyone give a heads up on this???<br />
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&nbsp;thanks in advance.
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Hi All,

Has anyone come up against Adware.ALOT google doesnt seem to have much on it.
I ran a scan on a clients PC with Malwarebytes, just 4 infiltrations of Adware.ALOT 3 on a maxtor backup device and one on the c drive. 
The client nformed me that he had lost about 10 days worth of emails in Outlook I was able to retrieve all except 3 days of the maxtor fore him ,but it seems this bug had disabled the backup as well as it had not backed up for a few days.
Also scanned with ESET AV  - no viruses 

Since doing this cleanup a couple of hours later my clients PC is in a spin cycle offering the options of enter safe mode with or without networking last know good config and a 10 second countdown and cannot get into the PC can anyone give a heads up on this???

 thanks in advance.

Adware.ALOT

Operating system security (OS security) is the process of ensuring OS integrity, confidentiality and availability. OS security refers to specified steps or measures used to protect the OS from threats, viruses, worms, malware or remote hacker intrusions. OS security encompasses all preventive-control techniques, which safeguard any computer assets capable of being stolen, edited or deleted if OS security is compromised, including authentication, passwords and threats to systems and programs.

OS Security

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.