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Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now?

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In article <97d3e5f9-95f5-4792-bf13-efd9708dd5bc@e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
Ron  <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> wrote:
>On Apr 16, 4:22 pm, Pen <nos...@spam.none> wrote:
>> On 4/16/2011 6:57 PM, Ron wrote:>  XP
>> > Antivirus Program 2011
>>
>> You have a virus nothing to do with xp; see
>here.http://www.spywareremove.com/removeXPAntiVirus2011.html
>
>I've been a fan of Windows NT and to a lesser extent, Windows 2K; that
>kind of crap couldn't happen on either of those two systems. They
>happen on XP because the OS doesn't really give you the freedom of
>choice to use whatever kind of firewall and Av programs you want to
>use: it only recognizes certain programs or even just the one AV
>program. Who designed such a totally deranged OS?
>
>If I could, I would go back to Win2k in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, my
>copy requires a disk drive to load in parts of Win2k and this laptop
>has only a DVD/CD to load programs. Win2k was never all that cheap to
>begin with, and it's more costly now than it ever was before, so I sem
>to be stuck with XP but I don't like it.  I'm not sure I would have
>gotten the laptop from Amazon if I had known that XP was its operating
>system.
>
>But back to the matter at hand, that article doesn't say what to do
>when your computer has been hijacked an you can run *any* other
>program to even find the culprit at work or to get rid of it.We are
>talking about total lock-down.

This is a fake antivirus. Among other things, it intercepts the handler
for .exe files and directs the requests to itself ... so any time you try
to run any program it executes the malware instead.

You need to terminate the process from Task Manager. You can then start
CMD.EXE by choosing FILE --> NEW TASK and ctrl-clicking on RUN. From
there, import the "exe file association fix" from the web site of your
choice and run your REAL antivirus to remove the malware. It typically
lives in the NETWORK SERVICE local settings folder.

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Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-16 15:57 -0700
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-04-16 19:22 -0400
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-16 17:51 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.) - 2011-04-17 01:30 +0000
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 05:47 -0700
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:30 -0700
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? BJ <backroadjunkie@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-04-17 04:26 -0500
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:22 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-04-17 20:45 -0400
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-18 21:05 +1200
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid@invalid.com> - 2011-04-18 11:35 -0500
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 06:55 +0000
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-21 17:20 -0700
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-25 22:49 +0000
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-17 10:14 -0500
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:57 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-18 19:10 -0500
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? schotty456_at_gmail_dot_com@foo.com (schotty456) - 2011-04-19 15:29 +0000
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 09:31 -0700
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 07:02 +0000
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-04-19 12:00 -0500
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 07:09 +0000
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-20 17:36 -0500
            Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-25 22:52 +0000
              Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-28 20:02 -0500
                Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-02 12:49 -0700
                Proper security (Was Re: Oh, God) wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-05-03 20:25 +0000
                Re: Proper security (Was Re: Oh, God) Robert Sneddon <fred@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-05-05 13:14 +0100
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 06:58 +0000
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? dg <david.goodnow@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 18:35 -0700

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