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[zirk]

Anyone come accross this?, Its a virus that hijacks explorer, disables your task manager and some really anoying pop ups, to clean your computer for £99, blah, blah...

Think I got mine from a toolbar or Google update manager.

Its starting to really p*ss me off now, been over a week, I tried all the usual Anti and spyware progs without suscess.

??

[JamesV6CDX]

http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/06/26/antivirus-xp-2008/

[zirk]

http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/06/26/antivirus-xp-2008/

Cheers James, I give it a go.

[Richie London]

ive just installed this version on my laptop, had the older avg before
http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe

[zirk]

ive just installed this version on my laptop, had the older avg before
http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Thx richierich,

My AVG was ver 7.5.524, I thought that was the last of the versions that were free.

I also use AVG Anti Root Kit Free (1.1.0.42) and AVG Anti Spyware Free (7.5.1.43) among other ones.

But none of them helped.

Currently doing the James link as we speak!

Cheers.

[Richie London]

ive also got spybot, spywareblaster, adaware pro, zone alarm and cleanmypc-registry cleaner, clean up and isystem wiper  

[zirk]

ive also got spybot, spywareblaster, adaware pro, zone alarm and cleanmypc-registry cleaner, clean up and isystem wiper  

All at the same time? guessing yours runs nearly as slow as mine then!

[Richie London]

no mines quite fast considering i run mine from my mobile phone. 921kbs, i might get the pay as you go 3 network broadband dongle

[zirk]

no mines quite fast considering i run mine from my mobile phone. 921kbs, i might get the pay as you go 3 network broadband dongle

Be carefull with 3, they charge you £1 per Mb if you go over your limit without warning.

If you want to try it out first without buying the dongle, just buy a normal 3 Sim (£10 sim with £10 credit from any proper 3 shop) and configure the datacard APN as 3 Data, and buy a months worth of browsing for £5. It does work on there Turbo Network (Dont tell the 3 man in the shop though thats what your going to do!).

The only other PAYG one is T-mobile, normal sim (£5 sim with £5 Credit, T-mobile Shop). you get 10 days free browsing, then pay £2.5 for each additional 6 days browsing, all unlimited. your get 3g speeds not sure about thier HSDPA (broadband) speeds though.

[zirk]

http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/06/26/antivirus-xp-2008/

Hurray!!, Well that worked, cleaned all the bits that no other cleaner could sniff out. Completely gone.

Recommend this one:

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.htm

Found over 100 issues that AVG, Mefee, Windows One Care, PC Tools etc, never found.

Well done James, nice one  

[dbug]

For freebie AntiVirus try Avast - has had better ratings than AVG in Computer Press.

[Richie London]

no mines quite fast considering i run mine from my mobile phone. 921kbs, i might get the pay as you go 3 network broadband dongle

Be carefull with 3, they charge you £1 per Mb if you go over your limit without warning.

If you want to try it out first without buying the dongle, just buy a normal 3 Sim (£10 sim with £10 credit from any proper 3 shop) and configure the datacard APN as 3 Data, and buy a months worth of browsing for £5. It does work on there Turbo Network (Dont tell the 3 man in the shop though thats what your going to do!).

The only other PAYG one is T-mobile, normal sim (£5 sim with £5 Credit, T-mobile Shop). you get 10 days free browsing, then pay £2.5 for each additional 6 days browsing, all unlimited. your get 3g speeds not sure about thier HSDPA (broadband) speeds though.

ive been doing this for the last 2 yrs  

[philhoward]

For freebie AntiVirus try Avast - has had better ratings than AVG in Computer Press.

I'm an Avast convert....used to use AVG plus a Spybot-esque blocker

[davlad22]

You might get away with a system restore in safe mode???

[Vamps]

http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/06/26/antivirus-xp-2008/

Hurray!!, Well that worked, cleaned all the bits that no other cleaner could sniff out. Completely gone.

Recommend this one:

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.htm

Found over 100 issues that AVG, Mefee, Windows One Care, PC Tools etc, never found.

Well done James, nice one  

I have been getting some hits, I don't know what is going on had some Windows warnings so I downloaded this and ran it 272 faults, lets hope it has worked.