If you receive an email advising you to download this - DON'T - immediately delete the email.

If you go to a website advising you to download this - DON'T

This is a new virus that just popped up and the "real" anti-virus protection companies don't have a fix just yet.

I am working on a client's PC right now to remove it and it's not a walk in the park.

Rule of thumb: Don't ever download anything that you are not 100% sure of.

That one self loaded on my computer from a web site last week. There is good information for manual removal on the internet though. the file names have changed though but, it's still easy to spot.

My son visited a site Monday night that loaded it on our computer. This thing pops up like a security warning. Never, ever click on it. Close it via the "x" in the upper right corner.
It even has a shield that looks similar to the Windows Defender shield logo.

It redirects everything on your computer to a site selling anti-virus software. Who in the *_(*(* blazes of he%% would buy their antivirus software when they infected your computer. Surely there is someway to permanently ban them from the internet.

Did you get it fixed?

I've thought that so many times about so many people and things.

Does this mean I did not win 250,000 pounds in the UK lottery?

Texasblonde, That must be the one that tried to load on mine from some site the other night. I think I had made a typing error of one letter in the address box and all of a sudden it started scanning for threats, using a windows security threat dialog box, as I recall. I unplugged my ethernet cable and shut down firefox in the running processes list thru ctrl alt del. Later I looked at my history and I had NOT made any typing errors in the browser address line.

If that's it, it's a sneaky little sucker.
I was going to a harmless site, too, like the Dallas Cowboy page or something that I visit often.

Mine didn't even do that. I was reading a blog and noticed the that my desktop color changed in hue (brighter blue). I closed down IE and there was a warning of virus detected on my computer. It went down hill from there. Locked up my desk top and kept getting pop ups saying I had 2695 virus' on the computer.

One day, maybe....I'll be able to get my hands around the scrawny little neck of one of those guys that puts this stuff out there, if I'm lucky. What a glorious day it will be !

Yep, that's what it does and it fools you into thinking it's a Microsoft product by using their official shield logo.

Avast can get rid of it - but it's a lengthy process.

I got rid of it manually in about 30-45 minutes and then locked down their URL. Hope that keeps them off my stuff. What a pain in the arse.

Here's my rule of thumb.....

Mine too

One of my son's friends went to a website a week or so ago and got this stupid virus. It just kept building on itself, modified the registery, stopped the allowance of the usage of task manager. I tried EVERYTHING but, Avast to rid the computer of it. I decided to just rebuild it instead to make SURE it was completely gone.

Of course, my linux box is fine.

hmmm - I use Trend Micro PC-Cillin and haven't seen a thing.

I use Norton 360 and spy sweeper and never go on the internet.

Yall need to quit looking at porn. I know it's hard, but it'll save your computer from getting viruses... On the other hand, if yall do quit looking at porn, then that may increase your chances of catching a virus....

It isnt just porn sites nowdays. It's all kinds of sites.

Uh huh, sure, that's your excuse....

Including some of the links provided here on the TFF.

I read where "that" industry is suffering from the recession as well

Worked on a friends box that had task manager disabled recently. AVG didn't find anything after a full scan. Makes me wonder if he still might have something.

If I went to porn sites, I'd admit it......no problem. That's what freaked me out with this last episode. I was going to a normal site, like TFF...( Ok...bad example)...or the cowboys site.

Uhm.......I would recommend against doing that. With some of these bugs, when you try to "x" out of the window, you actually end up infecting your system.

It's best to do a Ctl-Alt-Del and then kill the window in Task Manager. Usually, it will be an Internet Explorer process.

Trend Micro is so passe.

Yep.....he probably does.

Sometimes systems get so badly infected with stuff, that by the time you get them cleaned up, they still don't work right. Good programs get corrupted.

In cases like that, you're better off to just back up their data, put the OS disk in, re-partition the hard-drive and re-install the OS.

One other thing. If you have not already done so.....you need to insure that you are up to date on all of the Microsoft updates....including Service Pack III. Having these updates will help prevent a lot of the crud that you pick up.

Also....Install Windows Defender.

AVG's newest version has built-in anti-spyware as well.

Use this:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

I got an XP virus the other day that locked my machine up pretty bad.

I work with several techs and the thing that they had me do was to go to:
Start
Programs
Accesories
System Tools
System Restore
Follow the Wizard and then Restore a day or so before I got the virus and I have not had any problems since. I also ran a full system scan right after that and there were no problems.

Hope this helps.

My 'puter caught that [censored] over a month ago. Found some of it in my programs list and deleted what I could find. That slowed the popups some. Here in the last week I have not had any sign of it. May be it goes away after awhile

your kidding right?? I see that onecare live thing and run...I was working on my Dads system, and that is some sort of redirector..will not allow you to go to the internet, but your connected with yahoo etc....

Still trying to un-screw it...and don't get me started on ie7

Well sure....if you wanna take the easy way out and lose anything that m ight have been saved since the last known good!

I did not have anything that was that important is why I went that route.

a good virus will infect your restore as well. best to switch to Linux and quit worrying.

Format C

myspace.com is where my kids keep getting it.

That is probably where my son picked it up. He visits myspace several times a day.

I figure thats where my dads system got infected...his daughters are always on that thing..

-Note to self- Use someone else's computer to check myspace...

Too funny, but also too true.....

Good Morning!!!!

I also have this POS virus and system restore won't work!I was up all nite trying this that and the other........and I am giving serious thought of using this machine as a really large trot line!

Any other ideas???

superantispyware.exe
google it it will clean your pc if it has infected your video driver you will have to do a restore from the safe mode I am 66 years old I don’t go to porn sites but I did get the virus software is free