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[conkroach]

Can you teach me how to get my hands through the internet in order to choke the life out of virus writers? Our PC is crashed at home due to the latest scam Anti-virus offer. What a slick scam it is. "Wow, your computer is sick with a deadly virus (as everything goes wild on your desktop). Here, quick, buy this software from us, the very people who put the virus on your PC".

I KNOW this could be stopped if they wanted to. Too many people making money from the scams, legit and hackers both.

Originally Posted by conkroach

Can you teach me how to get my hands through the internet in order to choke the life out of virus writers?

I am sure there are many more useful ways to spend your time.

To get rid of such infections I recommend ComboFix

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe

[Stargazer1965]

Originally Posted by conkroach

Can you teach me how to get my hands through the internet in order to choke the life out of virus writers? Our PC is crashed at home due to the latest scam Anti-virus offer. What a slick scam it is. "Wow, your computer is sick with a deadly virus (as everything goes wild on your desktop). Here, quick, buy this software from us, the very people who put the virus on your PC".

I KNOW this could be stopped if they wanted to. Too many people making money from the scams, legit and hackers both.

You know what...I got this one also...

It was embedded in an AD running on a site I visited.

I got rid of it in about 15 minutes but I don't recommend the methods to a normal user.

I had to run in safe mode...kill a few programs running and edit the registry.

Not pretty....

But I would go with Spregs advice about changing virus scan programs...
I went with Micro Trends AV and the next time that occurred...it blocked it.

Hope this helps....SG