Hi!
> How do you control this virus?
If you are not, considering using a third party web browser. This
scourge is delivered via drive-by download. I know IE will fall to it,
not sure about Firefox but think I have seen a variant for that as
well. It seems unlikely that Safari or Opera would. More often than
not, this all starts with a full screen popup ad that you can't get
rid of, short of killing your browser with the Task Manager. To a less
experienced user, there's no way out short of actually installing the
thing.
All of the "regular suspects" in malware removal don't usually find
all of this program's bits and pieces. It's closely related to the
SmitFraud family of rogue security programs, and sometimes
SmitFraudFix can help. And if it won't, careful examination of the
system with a report generator such as HijackThis! can help you figure
out what is wrong. (Or you can send the report to a few different
sites where such reports are welcome.)
I have found that sometimes it takes putting the hard drive from the
infested computer into a healthy system and doing the cleanup from
there.
There are ways to stop it. Consider the use of another browser if
you're using IE. There are a few good choices. Don't visit any
suspicious web sites. Consider doing your web browsing as a limited
rights user. Tools like DropMyRights or Sandboxie might also be
useful. And don't forget about software that supports the display of
content while you browse--it should be updated as well.
William
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