Posted: 3/10/2009 4:29:52 PM EDT
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My friend alerted me to the fact that watch-movies.com was back and sent me a link.
So I go check the site out and I'm browsing around and I notice, Watchmen is already up for viewing. So I click the link to watch the video and as my browser routes me to the site that the video file will play on, a popup or something shows up that installed that hack "Windows Anti-Virus 2009" program onto my computer, in an instant. I removed the program immediately afterwards via the Control Panel's add/remove programs section. Now my PC is all jacked up. The virus prevents me from accessing most of my anti-malware programs by telling me there was a program error and not even starting the program to begin with. Only Super Anti-Spyware can get around this with its alternate start function, but after three tries, it hasn't removed the problem. This is still continuing after it removed two or three trojans during the first attempt. Malware Bytes' Anti-Malware isn't an option due to the aforementioned failure to start. Along with this, the virus prevents me from accessing my email account, and certain anti-malware program sites. It also causes the browser (both IE and Firefox) to lag a great deal and lock up/freeze under conditions it normally wouldn't even be close to locking up under. I already used up a trial of Norton 2009 last time my PC went crazy on me. Now I've installed and am currently running a McAfee check, but in the liklihood it doesn't work out, what should I do? How do you get rid of a virus that tries to cut off every effort, without having to reformat the drive? Will the repair function on my XP installation guide fix it? Any advice or remedies would be much appreciated. And I mean actual help, not shit like "shoot it" and/or "go buy a mac." |
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Let Me Google That For You
Link apon link on how to remove it. It's not that hard. |
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Google the word apon and get back to me. |
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I feel your pain. My husband's computer managed to get that phoney 'Antivirus 360' clone on it and it would do the same thing- hijack the browser, etc. After a TON of trying (took all day to get everything done), we managed to get the free version of avg installed, and spybot search & destroy installed. It cleaned a ton of stuff out, and now the computer runs fine again. http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition and www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html Good luck. |