A couple of nights ago I brought my pc out of sleep mode to play Dragon Age: Origins. Within 15 seconds off logging in I got slammed with the Antispyware Soft infection. I immediately unplugged my pc from the router and used my wife's machine to access Symantec's website....where I was unable to find any mention at all of this malware. I suppose that explains why it was able to get through NIS 2010. I was finally able to clean it up manually but it was several hours worth of hassle. I'm really curious as to how I got infected - I went to my normal web sites earlier that evening before putting the pc to sleep, but these are not shady sites...I'm talking about EVGA's support forums and Sports Illustrated. Anyway I'm more curious as to why NIS didn't pick this up or offer any help online.
Actually it was kind of funny. At one point I had popups all over my desktop, could barely do anything with the PC, and Norton was open in the background (although you could barely see it for all the popups) telling me that I was perfectly secure, a nice fat green checkmark happily assuring me that everything was fine.
I expected better.