“Cyber Security” itself is the malware and will increasing infect your machine.
My bosses PC caught this last week and I had to deal with it. You’ll find you can’t simply unistall it and have to use a third party program to remove it.
Google “cyber security removal” and you’ll find the tools needed.
Check out Malbytes and/or spybot.
They’re legit freeware - that has helped me clean up a couple of different things that Mcaffee let slip through.
google malwarebytes. download the free version of it, I have used it numerous times at work to remove these types of scam programs.
try malwarebytes
If the suggested malware programs don’t work, you might try a system restore to a previous ‘good’ time/date.
Go to www.download.com and get MalwareBytes. When you download the executable, put it on the desktop so that you can easily rename it to something random before you install it... as those Rogue Antivirus Programs will usually block it from running. MalwareBytes is usally really good at getting rid of those rogue programs. Once you get your system cleaned up... Update MalwareBytes and run it regularly.... Oh and if you are happy with the software, send the author some money so he can feed his family.
I’ve had to remove this nasty crap from two of my co-worker’s machines in the last two weeks...the malwarebytes is a good program, although I always use the ‘smitfraudfix’ program first. You can google it; it’s basically a nuclear option for malware, it destroys infected registry keys, et al. Remember to install and run these programs in safe mode tho!
#1- Back up your data to external HD.
#2- Format HD.
#3- Reinstall operating system and applications.
#4- Install Antivirus software.
#5- Scan external HD before moving data back to internal HD.
#6- Keep your operating system and AV updated and stop going to porn sites and 1-5 probably won’t be necessary in the future.
Having an 18 year old at home, believe me, I have needed a spyware removal tool, Spyware Doctor, has proven the best for me, has removed viruses that other have been unable to do.
check them out
http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?ref=afl_onenetwork&ClickID=dbtrxsbyhnzc0ktktshyhxxwkxcxmt0ncbky
IMHO I would NOT do what is recommended in posts 10 or 12. Way overkill and could screw you up even worse.
Get a new HD and reinstall your OS
Take your backed up data out to the shooting range and use it for target practice.
Of course most will try and use that data again but you can never trust that HD again.
Put on a pair of thick genuine rubber gloves. Pull the connections on your CPU. Carefully pick up the CPU. Walk with the CPU to the nearest open window. Carefully drop the CPU out the open window being careful to avoid hitting any small children or pets below. Load a shotgun with #2 shot and fire several rounds into the CPU to be sure it is really dead. Buy a new CPU. Never attempt to use AVAST-like programs again
Sounds like something the Obama White House might try.
User comments from post #24 site:
From CS customer service:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\CSUninstall\Uninstall
From the Paste the following string to Windows Explorer address bar and execute it (Press Enter key):
or
1. Open My computer, choose Disk C;
2. Find Program Files=>Common Files=>CSUninstall=>Uninstall
3. Run the file Uninstall.lnk
After that our product will be removed. Sometimes it takes more than one try to remove the product due to temporary technical difficulties, so please try to do it several times.
However, I would do this first:
press ctrl+alt+del
click process
click cs.exe
and click end process
I basically rely on “pray and press” (one virus in 10 years of extensive Internet use) and find this helps:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm