If you see this pop-up message, chances are your computer is infected with Conficker. The latest feature of the widespread worm is that it installs fake antivirus software on infected machines.
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Ubuntu 8.10 have this issue as well Joe ?
hey thanks joe, I’ll keep an eye out.
Oh my - we had that a few days ago. Malware Bytes didn’t find it and neither did my updated McAfee software. We had to backdate to a restore point.
I wonder if there’s anything else I should do?
Run shareware program MALWAREBYTES - will remove this crap
along with others that Norton/Microsoft will miss
That window poppped up a couple days ago on my computer. Had a heckuva time getting rid of it.
Here are the tools that the working group are listing.
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=ANY.RepairTools
Not very original.....