"Congratulations you won"

[markw]

A little voice from nowhere said "Congratulations you won" and IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) closed down.

I thought I somehow clicked on the little red "X" in the top right so I tried to re-open IE8.

I noticed my left mouse button didn't work and I was forced to do a hard reboot.

I did, all seemed well and I went back ito IE8.

Go back to the beginning of this post, and repeat until you realize you've picked up a fargin' virus.

 

[adk highlander]

Sorry to hear that Mark. What anti virus software do you use? Also I ran away from IE back at version 6 for this reason alone. I am a Chrome user now unless I'm using a work system that requires I use IE.

 

[markw]

AVG Free, AdAware, and Malwarebytes for the occasional scan.

I've been using these for years but this snuck right past 'em.

 

[its phillip]

At home I use firefox + noscript addon and my AV is MSE. I also run malwarebytes & spybot scans occasionally.

At work I again use firefox + noscript (yay for admin access on my machine) but unfortunately we use some lame mcafee av. I again run scans with mbam every once in awhile.

I've not had a virus or any kind of malware infections in years

 

[adk highlander]

AVG Free, AdAware, and Malwarebytes for the occasional scan.

I've been using these for years but this snuck right past 'em.

I've had good luck with those as well.

Were you surfing one of Alex's suggested sites?

 

[Rickster71]

Not a good week for computers I see.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

My best advice to you is this:
Go here: http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk?level=2 download the Rescue disk Iso - burn it to cd (with CdBurnerXP or ImgBurn)
Boot your pc from it, make sure to run update first.
Do full scan of your C: drive

= Have a virus free pc !

I cannot stress how good this solution is. I tried thousands of different methods, but while infected windows is running - there is very little that ANY antivirus could do.

After you done this - Install Firefox 7 or Google Chrome, make one of them default and delete all IE shortcuts forever !!!

 

[jeffsg4mac]

My best advice to you is this:
Go here: http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk?level=2 download the Rescue disk Iso - burn it to cd (with CdBurnerXP or ImgBurn)
Boot your pc from it, make sure to run update first.
Do full scan of your C: drive

= Have a virus free pc !

I cannot stress how good this solution is. I tried thousands of different methods, but while infected windows is running - there is very little that ANY antivirus could do.

After you done this - Install Firefox 7 or Google Chrome, make one of them default and delete all IE shortcuts forever !!!

I Agree with BSA 100%. Wow that is first huh BSA? Every PC that I have ever swept and fixed for people I have had them stop using IE and none of them ever got infected again.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I Agree with BSA 100%. Wow that is first huh BSA? Every PC that I have ever swept and fixed for people I have had them stop using IE and none of them ever got infected again.

My hats off to you - have you every removed fake Antivirus 2000 ? The one which completely disables the system, takes over even task manager

 

[j_garcia]

"Congratulations, you use IE"

 

[Adam]

Were you surfing one of Alex's suggested sites?

You read my mind.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

My hats off to you - have you every removed fake Antivirus 2000 ? The one which completely disables the system, takes over even task manager

I did remove some fake AV software a couple of months ago but I am not sure what it was. Can't remember the name. It was a mess though mostly bogging the system down.

 

[stratman]

I've been using Chrome, I have PC Tools Suite, anti everything.....fortunately no issues.....yet.

 

[Cruise Missile]

You read my mind.

Or your browser history!