I saw this a month or so ago. Couldn't start the task manager or a command prompt. Windows Explorer came up. I found in the Program Files a similar named program and renamed the folder then restart. Almost all the problems went away. There's still a DLL causing some IE issues, but luckily Chrome hadn't been installed. I installed that and got the NetBook functioning for them currently. I've not been able to get back over and clear that out 100% yet.
These things are nasty. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Bourke Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:12 PM On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:15 -0600, "John Harvey" <[email protected]> wrote: > Malwarebytes and superantispyware may have to be renamed in order to > run because the virus is looking for those names. I had to LogMeIn to my brother's laptop in Boston last week, he'd contracted a vicious little bastard of a malware infection that sounds similar to this one. Continual fake anti-virus pop-ups, blocked from running Task Manager, command prompts closed as soon as you started them, all downloads blocked in IE, FF and Chrome ... really, really bad. If I was in front of it with a Linux rescue CD I could have cleaned it but no hope otherwise. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/001301cabfac$fb0b1c90$f12155...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
