Which story at that link are you referencing?
It goes so far as to disable booting in safe mode and it completely takes over the Windows shell.
I hope we see an
Ad-Aware/MalwareBytes/Spybot/HijackThis type solution to this one soon. I do “Tech Support” for 4 grandsons age 5-11 so I’m dealing with this sort of thing all the time.
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A couple of weeks ago my screen went blank then up comes one showing what looked like the My Computer screen, it showed flashing red triangles telling me that it was under a virus attack and to click something to stop it.
I didn’t do it, of course.
I X’ed the window and did a virus scan. It found nothing.
And I can’t download Adobe 10 so I no longer can watch Youtube videos. It says I am running a 64 bit browser and Adobe 10 only works on 32 bit browsers. Anybody have any solutions?
get Root !
This has been my saving grace more than a few times. Have your drive partitioned into at least 2 drives. Put your Ghost images on to D:drive. You are protected to the extent you keep your images up to date.
I’ve had my system infected by similar ‘rogueware’ programs in the past. It throws up a fake ‘You’ve been infected’ message and prompts you to go to a website to download the program to remove it. Some of the newer ones will cripple your system preventing you from using your antivirus or antispyware software.
What most people aren’t aware of is that you can reboot your system into ‘Safe mode’ and in this mode the rogueware in almost 99% of the cases can’t cripple your system. I then use Malwarebyte’s AntiMalware software. You can download it for free and it has always found and gotten rid of all these rogue programs.
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.