New Fake Antivirus Attack Holds Victim's System Hostage

DarkReading ^ | Oct 15, 2009 | 02:42 PM | Kelly Jackson Higgins

[knittnmom]

Attack forces user to purchase phony antivirus package to free computer

[La Lydia]

It no worky for me, because I am a Mac person. As I said above, I can’t vouch for it, I only came across it. Must have worked for the person who thanked me. Maybe your daughter has a different virus. Maybe she should be looking at a Mac instead of a PC. I am very low tech, and since changing, haven’t had any problems.

[mysterio]

Had something similar a year ago. It was a nightmare. Get Malwarebytes anti-malware beforehand. That’s what fixed my system. It’s free, also.

[hiredhand]

From the sounds of it, my brother had something VERY similar. He told me what he was doing when he started having the problem. It turned out to be a malicious site which exploited a hole in IE 7. We managed to get rid of the thing with Symantec AV, but it was a regular PITA I tell ya!