Came across this new rogue site, Spyware Protector, that's just being setup with no downloads available as yet.

The bit where it says..

''once cleaned your machine will not get infected ever again''

for some people will be true as they will be unable to use it afterwards

I might have said this before, but, I'll say it again.

Instead of shipping 12 months of free Norton or McAfee or whatever with a new PC, they would better serve the thousands of new users coming to the web for the first time, by including nothing more than a link to "Forum.Piriform", or any of the other similar sites on the web.

With convincing looking rogue sites like that, a green as grass newbie stands very little chance of recognizing it as anything other than what it appears to be.

Very sad.

People would be lucky to even get 90 days for their trial version, and I know many probably let the trial run out. I've always thought a PC manufacturer needs to strike a deal with one of the free AV providers but I don't think that will ever happen.

The most I've seen done was awhile back where Dell recommended some freeware adware/spyware removal software on their support pages but still - someone would have to search for that to know about it and I doubt a new PC user would know anything about it. There seriously needs to be something like ClamWin but with a resident shield that can be legally pre-installed on PCs.

It may very well come to the point where Microsoft themselves needs to have some built-in tutorial about Internet security during the Windows Welcome when a user first uses their brand new PC, or just incorporate it into Security Center to educate people.