At 08:08 PM 4/25/2011, you wrote:
When we got it, we couldn't get rid of it on the screen. The system
shut down until we made the purchase. I don't know if you have the same thing.
yup thats the same or a similar one..
if it pops it's too late.. if you actually click it you take a huge
risk of having your identity stolen, if you actually put your credit
card info in to pay to get this anti-everything best thing since
sliced bread program, I can guarantee you that your identity will be
stolen in the next 2-4 years..
This type of trojen or virus comes from visiting a web site that
serves it up to your computer with no intervention from you. The
first thing it does is disable or trick your antivirus program so it
doesn't warn you.
The right thing to do is this:
leave the pop up there, dont click anything on it
CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up the Windows Task Manager
In the Applications tab, that popup should be highlighted, if not
click once to highlight
right click choose Go To Process
Now you will still be in the Windows Task Mgr, but in the Processes
tab with the popup process highlighted, click End Process.
So now that closed the pop up.. but click anything else in windows
explorer and it will come again. If you are REALLY adept at the
innards you can remove the program itself, but if you are not, best
thing is to shut it off, and drag the PC to the geek squad. Even if
you are adept, there have been changes made to your registry (try
starting any other program and you'll find that out) so you really
need to also pack it up and bring it to the geek squad.. hey even I
did that .. I have a guy who's been building and maintaining my PC's
for 15 years :)
At 06:46 PM 4/25/2011, you wrote:
What do you do if you get this? Close the box? Is it that simple to avoid it?
On Apr 25, 2011 5:30 PM, "Laura Merzetti"
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
> I almost did too, a couple of weeks ago but my spidey sense told me not to.
> I was a split second away from it though!
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> Laura M.
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> From: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Debbie Doerrlamm
> Sent: April-25-11 4:40 PM
> To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
> Subject: Re: NailTech:: serious virus warning..
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> I am telling you I was || close to clicking that.. it was very Microsoft
> official looking
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> At 10:54 AM 4/25/2011, you wrote:
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> Wow, Deb thanks for sharing this one! I am sure even the most computer
> savvy people could fall for this one.
>
> xo
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> Kind Regards,
> Elaine T. Watson
> Star Nail International
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> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Debbie Doerrlamm
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> So last night I am doing my regular work and this popup comes telling me I
> have 29 virus/trojens and I need to click to pay for the full scan and
> protection..
>
> Man those screens looked good.. very official, very enticing...
>
> but *I* know better, and I know my way around a computer's innards..
>
> So I searched the hard drive for the "files" it says it found.. and gee
> wilickers, I can't find them.. so I fire up the laptop to do some googling
> and sure'enuf its a bad one..
>
> What ticks me totally off (and Dave will lose his MIND over this) is I have
> real time scanning, I have the latest and greatest anti-every-darn thing on
> my desktop and it did not blink an eye.
>
> So now I am on the laptop (which runs completely with out protection - but
> thats gonna change) and I have to take my baby over to the guru to finish
> getting rid of the parts I can't find of this nasty thing
>
> BTW this one was titled "XP Home Security 2011" my research showed me there
> are a few variations of this.. but the general rule is pop ups
that tell you
> you need to pay for something to clean your computer is bad.. B A D
>
> Be safe out there people... always question what you click on.. don;t let
> wording of the request frighten you into doing something you will probably
> regret.
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>
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