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Network Security Experts has focused on providing managed security services, remote support, and network audit services for 7 years.  All of our services are designed to assist clients with issues relating to SOX, HIPAA, and GLBA compliance.  All services are designed to keep your costs low while providing you with the best service and support available.  Check out our Services Page or contact us to see what we can do for you. 

Beware of the Antivirus 2009 SCAM!!!
Just in the last two weeks I have had over a dozen customers come to me with virus problems.  They were browsing the Internet when all of a sudden a warning comes up telling them that they have been infected with an outrageous number of viruses.  Of course you can conveniently click a link and have all of this taken care of, for a cost of course.  These criminal programmers have gone a step further by making their software appear to be a windows program on top of that.  I am talking about a program called Antivirus 2009.  Too many home users panic when they see the pop-ups from this software and because it appears to be a trusted windows program, they click away.

A couple of things to be aware of when browsing the Internet:
1.  Windows programs do not pop up and offer to protect you for a fee.
2.  There are no windows programs that informs the user they are infected with a virus.

Once you are infected with this software, your Internet browsing experience becomes a real nightmare.  When you try to browse to a site to install a program that will remove this software, you will receive a warning that the site you are attempting to visit is a dangerous site.  Your antivirus software will probably stop updating and may stop working alltogether.

Follow these steps to remove this software:
1.  Get a copy of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.  You may have to get this software downloaded from a computer that is not infected as I had to do for my customers in every case.  The Antivirus 2009 prevented me from downloading this software.
2.  Once the Malwarebytes' software is installed, open up task manager and forcefully close all programs that are not necessary for your computer to run.  For reference, the following are typically services you cannot or should not cancel in task manager:  dllhost.exe, CFSvcs.exe, svchost.exe, lsass.exe, services.exe, winlogon.exe, explorer.exe, smss.exe, csrss.exe, spoolsv.exe, System, and System Idle Process.
3.  Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware software and perform a full scan.
4.  Now ensure your antivirus software is worth having.  I recommend you use NOD32 if you are willing to spend about $30, otherwise I would recommend AVAST Free Home Edition.
5.  Install your antivirus software of choice if it is not already installed, update it, scan your entire computer.
6.  Once that is done, I would recommend a boot time antivirus scan and then re-scan with Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

All software mentioned above can be found on the Links page.  If you are really serious about protecting your computer from these scams, buy NOD32 Antivirus and Spyzooka.  It will be the best investment you make to protect your computer and personal information.

Security Training

Network Security Experts now offers training for CISSP certification and Ethical Hacking for the security professional.  Check out our training page for more details.

Procedures

What use to be our support page has been updated and can be found on the Procedures link above.

Favorite Links Page Added and Updated 

The Favorite Links has been turned into it's own page and all links have been divided into categories.  Some excellent new FREE links to malware/spyware removal have been added.