I was wondering who has gotten this and when?

 

 

 

It seems to be going around here, and I was wondering if it could have been from a bad advert or something on this site.

 

 

 

For those of you who are not sure if you have had it, here is what the Pop-Up looks like:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do not go to the site they tell you too, it's a bogus site trying to sell you scareware. And yes, I did borrow the URL from some one elses website, so I will give credit to whoever made this: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:IW ... =clnk&cd=2

Reminds me of WinAntiVirus 2008 when I got it. Probably a similar progam.

 

 

 

If it is, I got it about 6 months ago. Still have it (or the remnants of it) on my desktop-turned-footrest.

Ah yes I got that too. :evil:

 

 

 

It's really annoying and hard to remove #-o

 

Haven't succeeded yet.

 

 

 

It also gives constant popups like this one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the makers: Lern2spell.

That is exactly what I have. I still havn't had the time to fully remove it from my computer. :wall: Except that the name is slightly different. But same everything else.

I had to reformat my computer because I got something like this, in fact I believe it's the same thing. Except mine changed the time in the bottom left hand corner to "INFECTED", uninstalled Kaspersky, installed a fake anti-virus program and gave pop-ups every ten seconds.

 

 

 

Rest in piece my 5GB of data I couldn't save. :pray:

 

 

 

However I don't think I got it from this site, I believe it was from an e-mail attachment that I was trying to delete but opened accidentally... :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

 

Rest in piece my 5GB of data I couldn't save. :pray:

 

 

 

 

 

 

R.I.P. :pray:

 

 

 

But thats weird o.o it scares me.

I had to reformat my computer because I got something like this, in fact I believe it's the same thing. Except mine changed the time in the bottom left hand corner to "INFECTED", uninstalled Kaspersky, installed a fake anti-virus program and gave pop-ups every ten seconds.

 

 

 

Rest in piece my 5GB of data I couldn't save. :pray:

 

 

 

However I don't think I got it from this site, I believe it was from an e-mail attachment that I was trying to delete but opened accidentally... :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

 

Only one person to blame you. You opened it you didn't backup.

i remember getting something like winantivirus a while ago. not sure if thats what it was but it had a thing in the tray and kept making them tray messages popup and had windows poping up telling me to install all sorts of bogus programs with unbelievably stupid and fake sounding names.

 

 

 

i forget exactly how i removed it but i found this page on google for the couple of you with it: http://www.411-spyware.com/remove-win-antivirus-2008

 

not sure if it works or not

That popup infection is usually Spydawn, and I have written removal instructions: HERE

Tried it...worked perfectly, thanks.

I had to reformat my computer because I got something like this, in fact I believe it's the same thing. Except mine changed the time in the bottom left hand corner to "INFECTED", uninstalled Kaspersky, installed a fake anti-virus program and gave pop-ups every ten seconds.

 

 

 

Rest in piece my 5GB of data I couldn't save. :pray:

 

 

 

However I don't think I got it from this site, I believe it was from an e-mail attachment that I was trying to delete but opened accidentally... :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

 

Only one person to blame you. You opened it you didn't backup.

Noes, I did and had backup's except it infected my external hard drive, which is were the date was lost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

I had to reformat my computer because I got something like this, in fact I believe it's the same thing. Except mine changed the time in the bottom left hand corner to "INFECTED", uninstalled Kaspersky, installed a fake anti-virus program and gave pop-ups every ten seconds.

 

 

 

Rest in piece my 5GB of data I couldn't save. :pray:

 

 

 

However I don't think I got it from this site, I believe it was from an e-mail attachment that I was trying to delete but opened accidentally... :wall:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

 

Only one person to blame you. You opened it you didn't backup.

Noes, I did and had backup's except it infected my external hard drive, which is were the date was lost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ Captainkidd

 

You should have backed it up to 3,556 floppy disks stupid :roll: If you did, I'm impressed.

 

 

 

OT: Looks like a nasty virus, the popup looks pretty real on first look, although Windows Firewall doesn't monitor outbound activity, and if the virus "adds a rule to Windows Firewall to allow it", how is Windows Firewall promoting you to allow access?