Hot Bliggity Blog! It’s the Friday spyware virus report

Good news and bad news folks…it’s Friday, that’s the good news. I had a great week with clients, but unfortunately…the bad news. New viruses are out and on the path of destruction. I have 2 computers in the shop with the same virus. Both viruses are pretty bad ass. They are far from easy to remove. One computer I got out finally…but the other is in for life I fear. It won’t even let me load any new programs to get it out. So I will have to manually remove them. This is equal to a root canal done with pliers!

The latest virus is “Personal Antivirus” and it is bypassed by Norton and pctools *(my favorite too) but you have to remember this is SPYWARE viruses, not regualar viruses that should be caught by regular programs. This virus also attacks Firefox. So beware!

Just keep an eye out for anything suspicious and you get a window that pops up, I would just shut down your computer at this point and do not go back to that website you were just on.

If you want a play by play on how to close that window and not get the virus, in a nutshell…

Go to your task manager and end all IE processes.The virus window will close, but so will all of your other IE windows.

That’s the easiest way to not get it. Most folks click on the box and the whole box is an image, so if you touch it, you’ve got it pretty much.

Hope that helps some of you avoid it…

Lisa

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