Court orders 'scareware' shut down

Baltimore Sun ^ | 13 Dec 2008 | Tricia Bishop

[Gondring]

Probably Libertarians.

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

[Riley]

xp anti-virus 2009? very common malware that I have seen spread like an epidemic as of late. Extremely difficult to remove also.

I remove half a dozen occurrances of that a week. It's only difficult to kill if it comes with that stupid rootkit that knows the names of antimalware software and prevents them from being installed.

To All:

If you get this thing, go to www.malwarebytes.org

and download MalwareBytes. Install, UPDATE and run a full scan. Remove whatever it finds. If you can't run the download, you have the afore-mentioned stupid rootkit. Rename the mbam-setup.exe file to anything else, such as mb.exe. Retain the .exe extension, of course. Scan, kill whatever it flags as badware.

Infectionx2009 is gone.

[Still Thinking]

Asshats.

[Still Thinking]

What a cash cow; create and distribute malware then cure it for a price!

You know, I always wondered if the anti-virus people were maybe funding the virus people.

[Still Thinking]

And overindulgence in crack is apparently a Pubbie thing.

[stylin_geek]

One of the things I’ve done is go into “services” in Windows and disable those programs from ever starting up. Sometimes, trying to dig those programs out takes more time than I care to spend at that time.