Post by Butch Bridges on Feb 9, 2009 18:11:32 GMT -6
A week or so ago I ran into a piece of malware called "Antivirus 2009" on a computer. It hijacked the computer, and unrelentlessly asked you every few seconds to upgrade for $29 to their Pro Version in a pop up box in the lower right hand corner of the screen. You couldn't even X out of the box. I knew what the problem was, MALWARE, and tried to remove it with my long time faithful program Spybot. But it would not remove it. So I did some googling and learned that a program I had already mentioned in this Forum called MalwareBytes will do the trick. I ran it and sure enough, in the matter of minutes the computer was cleaned from Antivirus 2009 malware. It did require a reboot to finish the job, but nonetheless, MalwareBytes did remove it completely. No further problems. Hooray for the freeware program MalwareBytes!
www.malwarebytes.org/
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