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Post by shadow008 on Nov 27, 2010 18:39:06 GMT -5
Wow.... i honestly hate the person who thought of creating this www.precisesecurity.com/rogue/antivirus-action/I really hope no one here ever gets this piece-of-shit downloaded to ur box. But if by any chance you do: www.myantispyware.com/2010/10/07/how-to-remove-antivirus-action-uninstall-instructions/That worked for me. And that is honestly the last time i ever go on myspace (yeah, got it from some guys profile link(idk?)) But it took about 3 hours to remove this annoying little bastard. First i had to figure out what it was, then had to use brothers comp to research it, then took about 1 hour for actual removal process... Yeah..... Has anyone else ever come across this? Hopefully you never do!
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Post by chris857 on Nov 27, 2010 19:22:28 GMT -5
Never had it, but it looks strangely familiar... Unless all fake antivirus programs look alike.
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Post by shadow008 on Nov 27, 2010 19:47:26 GMT -5
Strangely enough, accidentally deleting one of the required registry keys for some reason fixed a sound glitch i had been having on my computer. Well, actually the whole removal process took around 2 hours, i still had some glitches and that last post was while my comp was running in safe mode with networking. This is me posting on my now spyware free(i hope) computer : D
Well anyways, my advice: dont click on anything that looks sketchy.
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Post by matthew on Nov 28, 2010 15:29:48 GMT -5
My general advice would go a bit further than that & never click on a link to something being offered for free in an advertisement.
Recently I saw a free PDF converter being advertised, I did some research & discovered that it contained a lot of Spyware & it didn't even convert PDFs.
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Post by Adam on Nov 28, 2010 22:10:46 GMT -5
At work when a customer brings in a computer with a fake antivirus (or worse, a fake windows security alerts) we boot it into safe mode with networking and run combofix fixes it in about 10-15 minutes, best antivirus for the really nasty stuff www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix just make sure you get it from bleeping computers site.. some people have caught on and tried making fake versions of it
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Post by Wayne Rayner on Nov 29, 2010 5:54:38 GMT -5
While on this topic My dad had antivirus action on his comp stupid kyle (my brother).
Anyways my computer has registry errors and does anyone know of a free registry fixer/cleaner?
Regards Wayne Rayner
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Post by matthew on Nov 29, 2010 8:41:15 GMT -5
Yeah Wayne, I use CCleaner regularly after uninstalling software & I use Eusing about once every month. Both of them are really useful & are safe to use.
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Post by fwiss on Dec 21, 2010 16:45:30 GMT -5
Every virus my family had (I get called to stop viruses) was scareware. I got scareware from a torrent once. Linux has great options for saving Windows partitions, and there are multiple cross-platform antivirus and distributions. I used Trinity Rescue Kit, but Ubuntu and most large linuxs work, too. I just had it on a netbook, albeit a fast netbook (1.67 GhZ) so I used text-based. Anybody who wants to can remove most viruses like jokes. Torrents are the largest causes of viruses for computer-literate people, or so I've heard.
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Post by shadow008 on Dec 26, 2010 11:30:24 GMT -5
Round 2 goes to me : D
Gettin good at removin this bullsh*t
Except this time it was because i restored my computer back to a restore point where apparently this stuff was already on it... Time activated maybe?
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