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Whatever you do make sure you do NOT get this. What a pain in the neck. Apparently Microsoft's new malicious software removal tool has already removed over 400K copies of it since 2009 started.
Near as I can tell I was closing a dialog box after a virus scan and instead of hitting finish I clicked the X in the right hand corner(brain fart) and shut off my antivirus. Went away and when I came back I had a popup that AV 2009 had detected a virus and I needed to go to their site to download a fix. I was smart enough to suspect the popup was not from Symantec, so I cancelled it but it still tried to launch so I turned off the power.
3 hours later I think I finally got rid of it but it's slowed my system down I think it damaged or removed some windows files and I may have to reinstall XP.
It's very insidious it blocks all antivirus sites, and if you google how to remove it, and then click on the link, it redirects your browser to another site so you can't read the fix links. Major pain I finally found a program called Malware something or other that found like 6 trojan horses on my system and a ton of spyware that it yanked. Like I said I think I accidentally disabled my antivirus but now when I go to the site I was on when I got infected, my IE crashes off and on, I think that site is infected and my antivirus in blocking it hangs IE?
Near as I can tell I was closing a dialog box after a virus scan and instead of hitting finish I clicked the X in the right hand corner(brain fart) and shut off my antivirus. Went away and when I came back I had a popup that AV 2009 had detected a virus and I needed to go to their site to download a fix. I was smart enough to suspect the popup was not from Symantec, so I cancelled it but it still tried to launch so I turned off the power.
3 hours later I think I finally got rid of it but it's slowed my system down I think it damaged or removed some windows files and I may have to reinstall XP.
It's very insidious it blocks all antivirus sites, and if you google how to remove it, and then click on the link, it redirects your browser to another site so you can't read the fix links. Major pain I finally found a program called Malware something or other that found like 6 trojan horses on my system and a ton of spyware that it yanked. Like I said I think I accidentally disabled my antivirus but now when I go to the site I was on when I got infected, my IE crashes off and on, I think that site is infected and my antivirus in blocking it hangs IE?
