virus question

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by tkevcu

I haven't found a whole lot about this particular one on the web, but from what I have found, it doesn't look that bad.

What version of Windows is on the laptop?

Malwarebytes and Spybot are both good programs. You can also run HijackThis and post/attach the log, and we can read through that.

It's actually pretty bad, because it constantly pops up and blocks you from being able to use your computer. It masquerades as a legitimate virus scanner. Ultimately it takes you to a website in order to download their "virus remover", which is more spyware and viral files, after you've given them your credit card number.

All in all, that's pretty bad. It's also damned tough to remove, once it has gotten to a certain state of infection. I generally use either a Windows PBE boot CD or something like BART PE, in order to boot into the system and start a manual cleaning, before I move on to the utilities that I've mentioned. That gives me about a 95% positive result, but I still occasionally have to reinstall Windows.