[Hidden-tech] Can anyone help my mom with a spammy virus?

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

There is a very similar virus for the PC running about. The program wants
$$ to 'repair' the computer. It also looks almost exactly the same as a
Microsoft Security window. I got it and had some "fun" deleting all of it.

One trick I used was to let a Microsoft virus checker find many of the
files, then I jotted down the date & time of the files, before letting the
program delete them.

Next I searched for all files with the same date and approximately the same
time, which I deleted using the DOS box. As I recall there were four that
the Microsoft program & Malware bytes didn't get.

So far, so good.

I should also mention that I acquired the real repair programs on a
different computer, and placed them unto a USB stick that has a write lock
switch. Later I filed these programs on an CD ROM.


Jim Ussailis

Original Message:
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From: Shel Horowitz shel at frugalfun.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:21:53 -0400
To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Can anyone help my mom with a spammy virus?


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Wow, this group is great. We got several very worthy responses, and 
hopefully she'll be able to figure out how to run the uninstaller. 
(Or if not, I'll have to go over and do it for her).

Thanks x 10 to the 6th.
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