Epidemic - Be Careful Of Fake Antivirus Infections

Isoverity · 09-12-2008, 08:51 PM

In a lot of my forums I am seeing a lot of people recently infected by fake anti virus software called Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009. The computer repair people in my computer forums say they are fixing many computers with this trojan on them. Dont open any anything that says its an antivirus
that has detected things on your computer. Be careful downloading or using IM's on MySpace, Facebook etc

http://billmullins.wordpress.com/200...ware-software/

You can use this to take off any version of the fake antivirus

Malwarebytes
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivir...-Malware.shtml

Its easy to do but here are directions anyway

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/i...showtopic=5178

09-12-2008, 09:02 PM

lol my brother had that.

hahhaahah.
It was SO funny.

We had to rebuild it from scratch because it'd messed up his laptop so much.

Not that I'm pleased or anything >_>'

-phoenix- · 09-12-2008, 09:06 PM

oh hell yeah, that happened to me like just last week! I tried everything to get rid of it (so annoying coz i only got this laptop like 3months ago!) and in the end I had to do a complete system restore...lost so much...soo yeah be careful everyone!!! xXx

x-dying-inside-x · 09-12-2008, 09:18 PM

thanks for letting us know.

Isoverity · 09-12-2008, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rawrk

lol my brother had that.

hahhaahah.
It was SO funny.

We had to rebuild it from scratch because it'd messed up his laptop so much.

Not that I'm pleased or anything >_>'

Little brothers are the greatest enemies to PC health that the world has ever known. Give them five minutes and they will find any Martian insect pron site that might be in existence.

Isoverity · 09-12-2008, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Isoverity

Little brothers are the greatest enemies to PC health that the world has ever known. Give them five minutes and they will find any Martian insect pron site that might be in existence.

Your welcome of course. Nice avatar.

Leo Pard · 09-12-2008, 09:36 PM

I didn't accidentally download one... ¬ ¬

System restore is my friend.

09-12-2008, 11:07 PM

Ohlol, I know brothers are a menace.

I let him use my laptop once, and he looked up all this porn and didn't erase the browsing history, so when my mother used it for five minutes, all these porn sights popped up and she was like 'Tiiiiiifff. WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT PORN!?'
I just did a wtf face.

Then we worked out it was my brother and he got yelled at ^_^

Caru y Nos · 10-12-2008, 02:04 AM

^ Yes, we all believe you... It was your "brother". ;)

Thanks for the warning! (:

Asystole · 10-12-2008, 02:54 AM

http://noscript.net/

Suck that, viruses.

Aidee · 10-12-2008, 03:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asystole

http://noscript.net/

Suck that, viruses.

Word.

Isoverity · 10-12-2008, 05:57 AM

Yeah that would be bogus warning. "Fishy" on a Moby Dick scale.

10-12-2008, 03:18 PM

^ I had to reread that to make sense of it.

I forgot what Moby Dick was >_>'

Isoverity · 10-12-2008, 08:20 PM

That's understandable as the book is 150 yrs old now. Some people today probably think its an STD lol

Sharloid. · 10-12-2008, 09:02 PM

People are really so stupid as to download/click on something that has 3 exclamation marks in the title thing? Pfft!