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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: sandymc12 on June 08, 2010, 07:46:57 PM

Title: Avast stopped working/Security Master AV notification
Post by: sandymc12 on June 08, 2010, 07:46:57 PM

Hi there,

Can you help? I was just online and all of a sudden I got a notification from Security Master AV telling me I have 24 potential threats found including:

Trojan-Spy.html.citifraud
Trojan-PSW.Win32.Dripper / Delf.d / Hooker
Virus.BAT.IBBM.CIsV
and others

when I went to go into Avast it won't open, internet won't work (I'm on someone elses laptop) neither will malwarebytes.

 Is Security Master AV part of Avast? When I click option to remove all threats it just brings me to a site to buy upgrated packages ( I have the free version). What can I do?

Thanks a million,

Sandy

Title: Re: Avast stopped working/Security Master AV notification
Post by: Gargamel360 on June 08, 2010, 07:57:35 PM

Not part of Avast!, no.
This is a rouge AV, a fake.
You can try following this guide
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-master-av (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-master-av)

I'd love to meet someone who makes these rouges......introduce myself in a very physical way.

Title: Re: Avast stopped working/Security Master AV notification
Post by: Asyn on June 08, 2010, 08:16:47 PM

Quote from: Gargamel360 on June 08, 2010, 07:57:35 PM

I'd love to meet someone who makes these rouges......introduce myself in a very physical way.

;D 8)