Royce 1, Malware 0, PC Tools $39.95

[jeriendhal]

So yesterday whilst surfing the net I managed to hit the wrong site and get a nasty piece of adware on my computer that literally popped up every 30 seconds to "help" me by removing (irony of ironys) viruses and malware.

Cue much cursing as my freebie copy Spyware Doctor did no good. Cue more cursing when I upgraded to the registered version and found that I can't download the updates. But that does not matter, because I did manage to find the .exe file for the little bastard and delete it, after moonshadowed figured out how to boot the computer into Safe Mode. Win for us, even more when I can get the virus protection working again.

Comments

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

I suspect you picked up a dose of Virtumundo if it was from that kind of site -- get thee hence to http://filehippo.com and download VundoFix if they have it, and a copy of the free version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, which should root it out. Oh, and pick up Spybot Search & Destroy, which also gets bits. Ad-Aware isn't much cop for it, and for some reason Avast! actually lets the damn thing through.

[evilpassion8.livejournal.com]

There's another VERY vicious virus with the same symptoms (can't remember the name right now) but badasher and I had to redo angel's computer about 4 times because of the sucker. I think that's the one his computer caught and was down for ages, if you remember. To get rid of it you have to find, ferret and suck it out bits and pieces at a time. It looks like it is gone and suddenly it is back. IF the thing pops up again make absolutely sure to not click anything except the 'x' in the upper right corner. If it asks if you want to abort or quit and you click 'yes', 'close' or anything similar, you are absolutely sunk.

Suggestion: try Kaspersky (free for 30 days and then something like $59). I LOVED spy-bot but even spy-bot doesn't catch this sucker......Kaspersky is the only one that updates nearly every day and it is KILLER. No problems since getting it and believe me, I was catching stuff nearly every day prior to that (cause I hit so many sites).