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    Beware antivirus studio 2010 takes over pc

    This is just a quick heads up.

    Just had a sittuation where my pc installed a virus that itself pretends to be an antivirus program, pretty much takes over the machine and tries to get you to pay for the full programme to clean up your PC.

    Luckily I am a suspicious old goat and thought this was a scam and did a system restore to get rid of the dammned thing and then googled 'Antivirus Studio 2010' and sure enough found it was a scam. This is the first time I have been infected with a virus since Stinger was doing the rounds many years ago.

    I am running AVG free version which until now has been pretty bullet proof and it let this one through so beware.
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    yeah there are loads of different versions of fake antiviruses out there at the mo. problem is they're infecting web sites and as soon as you visit that site it loads itself onto your computer :(

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    • #3
      I'm embarrassed to say I fell for this also, it was a right little sod (preventing you reaching Task Manager, IE anything I would use to find a tool to kill the process). Fortunately I had AVG running and it removed the pest in about 10 seconds.

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        [quote=debrooker;543627]I'm embarrassed to say I fell for this also, it was a right little sod (preventing you reaching Task Manager, IE anything I would use to find a tool to kill the process). Fortunately I had AVG running and it removed the pest in about 10 seconds.[/quote]
        Interesting, AVG did not seem to be able to pick up whilst the machine was running in normal mode, I had to shut down and boot in safe mode then ran AVG and it picked it up, then did a system restore just to be safe and all now appears to be well.
        Pico z * 2 (I know they arent 'proper' helis but they are to blame)
        MCX - Got bored after a fairly short time.
        MSR * 2 (my current favourite)
        SR -as yet unflown

        Ewan

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        • #5
          I had a similar thing a while back, if you've not intentionally installed it then chances are its a virus.

          I got rid of mine by ID'ing the exe files (quick google search of running process I didn't recognise) and manually deleting them, running msconfig removing them from that start up list, restarting then using spybot S&D's shredder to get rid of anything else that couldn't be removed because it was in use.

          Simples.
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          • #6
            Yep my mrs accidentally downloaded one. By the time I got home it had recked my os, had to reload the lot :-(
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