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Stan001
I should warn you about a virus that’s going the rounds right now. This one is a trojen and embeds itself deeply in your system in about 25 places then replicates even more. You’ll know when you’ve got it because you’ll get a virus programme (which is a fake) called something like PCTools (there’s a few bits of software out there actually called PCTool so i feel sorry for them cos this bad one looks genuine)), inform you that your PC is infected about 200 times and the only way you can disinfect your PC is with their software. You just need to click and it will then download even more virus into your PC. Another symptom is when you try and access sites like AVG, McAfee etc you’ll get a message saying ‘oops – broken link’.
This trojen is circulating around Facebook and emails. My sister, a bank manager, got it from another bank manager friend on Facebook (in case you wondered what bank managers do in their spare time).
I got hit with this about 6 months ago so I knew exactly what to do.
The virus can easily get its way past AVG (it did mine) as its malware and not exactly a virus. It does I think get caught by MS Security Essentials. But the one programme on the market that absolutely is the best and will kill this one is Malwarebytes Antimalware, its free!
I read an article months back on this and apparently at that time there was only two programmes that could kill this trojen and the only free one is Malwarebytes Antimalware (the only difference between their free programme and their paid for is that the free one you physically have to click scan whilst the paid for one can be scheduled.
The attack on my sister and her friends was only weeks ago. It took me ages to clean it – a quick instruction is as follows:-
1.Download Malwarebytes Antimalware from http://www.malwarebytes.org
2.After install, click Update to download the latest signatures
3.Click Scan (do the full scan option) and let the thing do its business.
How I had to do it on my sisters PC is to load Antimalware onto a USB stick from my home PC as the trojen won’t let the infected PC download it from the internet (you get the ooops and broken link popup). I installed it from my USB stick into her PC, then it ran ok from there (the trojen cripples internet explorer but lets the Antimalware prog update directly off the www no problem). The full scan took about an hour and there was over 200 infections. When you let the bad PC scan do not allow it to contact the www, do it offline, the trojen keeps calling back and putting annoying popups and staying resident in memory. So do all this disconnected from the www.
My advice is download the Malwarebytes program now whilst you still have access to the www. Its far less painful if you do get it! Whatever virus software you are running now may not catch malware, so it’s worth doing, from memory I think it’s only a 9 meg download so fast to do.
Hope this helps – in case you are wondering I am not associated with Malwarbytes or anything like that – I just can’t stand the scumbags who write this crappy virus stuff and would hate you to get upset like my sis did with her new PC she thought she’d have to scrap.
Hope that helps, Stan
(been meaning to post this for a week but been mega busy – am posting to the 2 forums I visit – please pass this info on if it helps)
This trojen is circulating around Facebook and emails. My sister, a bank manager, got it from another bank manager friend on Facebook (in case you wondered what bank managers do in their spare time).
I got hit with this about 6 months ago so I knew exactly what to do.
The virus can easily get its way past AVG (it did mine) as its malware and not exactly a virus. It does I think get caught by MS Security Essentials. But the one programme on the market that absolutely is the best and will kill this one is Malwarebytes Antimalware, its free!
I read an article months back on this and apparently at that time there was only two programmes that could kill this trojen and the only free one is Malwarebytes Antimalware (the only difference between their free programme and their paid for is that the free one you physically have to click scan whilst the paid for one can be scheduled.
The attack on my sister and her friends was only weeks ago. It took me ages to clean it – a quick instruction is as follows:-
1.Download Malwarebytes Antimalware from http://www.malwarebytes.org
2.After install, click Update to download the latest signatures
3.Click Scan (do the full scan option) and let the thing do its business.
How I had to do it on my sisters PC is to load Antimalware onto a USB stick from my home PC as the trojen won’t let the infected PC download it from the internet (you get the ooops and broken link popup). I installed it from my USB stick into her PC, then it ran ok from there (the trojen cripples internet explorer but lets the Antimalware prog update directly off the www no problem). The full scan took about an hour and there was over 200 infections. When you let the bad PC scan do not allow it to contact the www, do it offline, the trojen keeps calling back and putting annoying popups and staying resident in memory. So do all this disconnected from the www.
My advice is download the Malwarebytes program now whilst you still have access to the www. Its far less painful if you do get it! Whatever virus software you are running now may not catch malware, so it’s worth doing, from memory I think it’s only a 9 meg download so fast to do.
Hope this helps – in case you are wondering I am not associated with Malwarbytes or anything like that – I just can’t stand the scumbags who write this crappy virus stuff and would hate you to get upset like my sis did with her new PC she thought she’d have to scrap.
Hope that helps, Stan
(been meaning to post this for a week but been mega busy – am posting to the 2 forums I visit – please pass this info on if it helps)
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