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I had my computer 1 month, when it no longer could connect on line. I had a computer geek look at it. He said the cause was limewire, I mean it trashed everything. He spent hours getting it up and running again. He said when my child, downloaded the free version, and clicked I agree, we allowed limewire to install what ever they wanted, when ever they wanted. I do not want to falsely accuse this company, but that is what I was told.

The people responsible for this and other internet scams have been charges in Federal court and have had their assets seized! One of the participants, Sam Jain, is now a fugitive and James Reno, another scumbag connected with this scam is whining about having his 'business' closed. I hope they all get long prison sentences and end up dating 'Bubba' or 'Tyrone' while on the inside!

First of all, I'd like to make it clear that, I did NOT actually click on any of the pop ups, and I never paid for WinAntiVirus. I agree with you Mike on the fact that my problem is not with WinAntiVirus, because I never purchased it. I only filed the report to stop someone else in my situation from making that mistake and to stop them from downloading WinAntiVirus to remove the infections. This company is working together with the hackers, and if not, they are the hackers. Bottom line, WinAntiVirus is bad business and does not deserve any money.

I new I was taking a big risk by downloading a file from that website, and that I regret. But you made it sound like downloading these cracks is illegal, if this is true, it still is not nearly as bad as robbing a mass group of people, like WinAntiVirus is doing. I know for a fact that I did nothing morally wrong and I got my computer infected and now I have to reinstall windows soon. And it almost sounds like you're stating that I deserved this.

Now it might not be their fault that I got these viruses in the first place, but it is their fault that they are cooperating with these hackers. It is their fault that they are selling a product illegally. This is like a kid walking around the classroom putting ink marks on everyones paper, and me walking behind him charging those students to use my whiteout, and then splitting my profits with the person who put the markings on the papers. My example is not perfectly written, but it is perfectly parallel to this situation.

Thanks for your comment anyway.

Theodore...

You said:

"I recently lost my serial key for a game called Gangland. I went online to search for the serial key as I have before for other games.

I Googled "gangland serial key" and clicked on one of the first listings (even though Mozilla advised me this site may cause harm to my computer) and I saved a file that was supposed to generate the serial key. I opened the file and it had moved so I couldn't open it."

**ok, slow, easy breath here. First of all, what you did was search online for a serial number or serial number generator. These are released by cracking groups, and are illegal. The fact that you lost your serial number is irrelevant. You went to a website that more than likely is run by crackers and downloaded a file that contained a virus/spyware and ran such file on your machine, thus causing the program to install it's malware.

Also, clicking on pop ups is never a good idea, nor is installing anything that it redirects you to. They are nothing more than a form of spam. Even the pop ups that appear to show you a driectory structure of YOUR machine do not, they are spyware pop ups. Your problem is not with the Win Anti virus, but with the fact that you went to a site and downloaded files from a poor choice. Sorry to hear you lost the serial # for the game, but installing cracked/serial generators is ALWAYS a bad idea.