hidden malware / virus - what do I do now?

Caught them this time. It might have been 3 times in six months instead of
just twice. As soon as I saw the pie chart and the green flahing lights, I
new I had innocently clicked on a family photo that hackers had installed a
malware / virus/
Rip - my- harddrve to hell with interthreading technology......Black screen
of death.

It then shows itself as Internet Security 2010. Buy Now for 59,95 for a
three year licence. Notice the comma , not decimal point in the price. They
were from Overseas.

My Question to you is how do i stop this from happening again?
AT&T says from India "we are not responsible"
MCafee doesnt stop it.
Trend Didn't stop it with Internet Security 2007.
Webroot Didn't either.

What is a non techie to do? I am NUMB.

Any Suggestions other than to bury this thing in the back yard?

Here is 2 that will clean this off from your system


Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan (separately) with the
following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to use for this):

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/

MalwareBytes
http://www.malwarebytes.com/


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Peter

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"Tanker05" wrote in message
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Caught them this time. It might have been 3 times in six months instead of
just twice. As soon as I saw the pie chart and the green flahing lights, I
new I had innocently clicked on a family photo that hackers had installed a
malware / virus/
Rip - my- harddrve to hell with interthreading technology......Black screen
of death.

It then shows itself as Internet Security 2010. Buy Now for 59,95 for a
three year licence. Notice the comma , not decimal point in the price. They
were from Overseas.

My Question to you is how do i stop this from happening again?
AT&T says from India "we are not responsible"
MCafee doesnt stop it.
Trend Didn't stop it with Internet Security 2007.
Webroot Didn't either.

What is a non techie to do? I am NUMB.

Any Suggestions other than to bury this thing in the back yard?

Tanker05 wrote:
Caught them this time. It might have been 3 times in six months instead of
just twice. As soon as I saw the pie chart and the green flashing lights, I
new I had innocently clicked on a family photo that hackers had installed a
malware / virus/
Rip - my- harddrive to hell with interthreading technology......Black screen
of death.

It then shows itself as Internet Security 2010. Buy Now for 59,95 for a
three year license. Notice the comma , not decimal point in the price. They
were from Overseas.

My Question to you is how do I stop this from happening again?
AT&T says from India "we are not responsible"
MCafee doesn't stop it.
Trend didn't stop it with Internet Security 2007.
Webroot didn't either.

What is a non techie to do? I am NUMB.

Any Suggestions other than to bury this thing in the back yard?

Here are a few ways to protect against the malicious scripts:

- Use Mozilla Firefox and add the free NoScript Plugin, then the scripts
can't run.

- Win Patrol, like Tea Timer and other programs that watch the registry
and running processes, won't allow processes to run, and registry writes
unless you allow them.

Get many of the programs you need from http://www.Download.com which is
a Cnet site, and pretty safe. Get Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com

--
Joe =o)

Tanker05 wrote:
Caught them this time. It might have been 3 times in six months
instead of just twice. As soon as I saw the pie chart and the green
flahing lights, I new I had innocently clicked on a family photo that
hackers had installed a malware / virus/
Rip - my- harddrve to hell with interthreading technology......Black
screen of death.

It then shows itself as Internet Security 2010. Buy Now for 59,95 for
a three year licence. Notice the comma , not decimal point in the
price. They were from Overseas.

My Question to you is how do i stop this from happening again?
AT&T says from India "we are not responsible"
MCafee doesnt stop it.
Trend Didn't stop it with Internet Security 2007.
Webroot Didn't either.

What is a non techie to do? I am NUMB.

Any Suggestions other than to bury this thing in the back yard?

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...26b02dd7?hl=en

(Come on Microsoft, enough with the filtering already!!!)

infections like Trojans can hide
anywhere and be disguised as
pics, documents, games and
programs.

once an infection is found and
zapped away by an antivirus
program,

then you must also delete your
system restore points and even
old backup'd archives because

the infection may have found its
way to the archives you created
and is awaiting to be restored.


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"Tanker05" wrote in message ...
Caught them this time. It might have been 3 times in six months instead of
just twice. As soon as I saw the pie chart and the green flahing lights, I
new I had innocently clicked on a family photo that hackers had installed a
malware / virus/
Rip - my- harddrve to hell with interthreading technology......Black screen
of death.

It then shows itself as Internet Security 2010. Buy Now for 59,95 for a
three year licence. Notice the comma , not decimal point in the price. They
were from Overseas.

My Question to you is how do i stop this from happening again?
AT&T says from India "we are not responsible"
MCafee doesnt stop it.
Trend Didn't stop it with Internet Security 2007.
Webroot Didn't either.

What is a non techie to do? I am NUMB.

Any Suggestions other than to bury this thing in the back yard?