[NetBehaviour] viruses and malware and other stuff

[Alan Sondheim]

so this from a facebook post I sent out -

I've had huge problems w/ malware and viruses recently, including Adobe's flash 
update adding MacAfee without asking permission, to two of my friend's 
computers. I also ended up with a mess after a cnet download, including 
"Scorpionsaver," "Adpeak," and "Connect" or "Conduit" - they screwed up my 
browsers and in order to uninstall I had to roar through the registry like a 
banshee. Anyone else having these difficulties? They seem to be spreading. 
Everything's back to normal now, unless there's a rootkit at work and I don't 
see signs of it. I would definitely NOT use the cnet site again or update 
Adobe; I'm also staying away from the clouds around. Btw McAfee has been as 
pernicious as well; you have to use an uninstall tool from them as well as the 
regular program installs etc. etc. - and I still found stuff lying around the 
registry - and after I cleaned that out, had to use CCleaner for the remnants. 
Argh. This on a Win8 machine that came clean - think part of the problem was 
with Zinio which has had bad installs all over the place except for the app 
version. Argh again.

- Alan