[markomalley]

From what I've seen, the most vulnerable to this sort of thing are the elderly...I've had to clean up parents' and parents' in law computers from the damage done by these stupid little popups.

Hard to convince some folks that snake-oil salesmen still exist.

[Tennessee Nana]

Most of those pop ups are on EMail sites...

[Loyal Buckeye]

They hit my computer a couple weeks ago and I had a tough time getting rid of them. Coincidence, or not, someone started charging my Visa card at about the same time.

[McGruff]

My mother in law was a victim of this. She called me saying her computer was infected and this malware program “Antivirus System PRO” had taken over her machine.

It did. Couldn't do anything without this “anti virus program” warning about other viruses. Luckily I had run into this before with my son's computer.

The solution is to download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php install it on all your computers and do the update. If “Antivirus System PRO” takes over your computer you won't be able to get on the Internet to download it then.

Good luck.

[steve-b]

I’ll admit to being a soft-on-crime hippie wimp — care should be taken to insure that the perpetrators’ public executions are quick and painless.

[ShadowAce]

[Tribune7]

ping

[Venturer]

Might I ask what is being done to stop it?

What fine or imprisonment do these thieves get?

They should be easy to track, since they are putting a program out there to be downloaded, why isnt the law after them?

I am betting there isnt anything being done.

[bitt]

very stubborn infections were not repaired by www.malwarebytes.com or www.superantispyware.com on several pcs for me..

I loaded the older “windows defender” from the microsoft website, and then all the cleaners could work properly.

Seems like the only pcs infected were the ones without all the recent windows updates and SP3 (xp)