{"id":693,"date":"2009-08-18T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=693"},"modified":"2009-09-26T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:46:53","slug":"how-to-recognize-real-vs-fake-anti-virus-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/how-to-recognize-real-vs-fake-anti-virus-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recognize real vs. fake anti-virus warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can you recognize real vs. fake anti-virus warnings? In the case of AVG Anti-Virus, if it detects a virus it will prompt you to “Heal”, “Move to Vault” or “Ignore” a virus threat (as shown below).<\/p>\n

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How can you recognize real vs. fake anti-virus warnings? In the case of AVG Anti-Virus, if it detects a virus it will prompt you to “Heal”, “Move to Vault” or “Ignore” a virus threat (as shown below). Common fake anti-virus programs prompt you to buy a license, or click for a “free” scan as shown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}