Any ideas where you picked it up?
I have a theory that these extortion-ware programs are broken up into pieces that are then hooked onto scripted portions of legitimate websites (hooking onto either flash or java). These pieces are small and innocous until all the pieces are downloaded in the temp files. A trigger will then cause them to launch and create the "virus".
Seems kind of far-fetched, but I have been fighting these and removing them weekly for almost 2 years now.
“Any ideas where you picked it up?”
No idea. I try real hard to avoid going any place that is questionable. I will look in IE logs to see where I went. I try to avoid surfing.
I had old stupid Norton and I think Avast wasn’t on full because of Norton. Norton factory pre-loaded is hard to get rid of.
I am at 77% on Avast at the boot drive but will have to put malware on a usb like the other fellow suggested. I dobt Avast will get it. This is a bad one.
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