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UnDa

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need help
« on: June 15, 2006, 05:41:56 AM »
i need lots of help!!  :-[  by the bottom right ccorner, this one red circle with a white X keeps poping up and i cant get rid of it. it tells me that "your computer is in danger.  window security center has detect spyware ... etc"  so i scan my comp with avast, and it got some virus. but yet the red circle with the x wont go away. how do i get them to dissapear?

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Re: need help
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2006, 06:49:49 AM »
That's the standard warning of the [Microsoft's Windows built-ini] Security Center advise when it didn't detected your antivirus and firewall at boot time.

That thing of course is very strange because the Security System feature (which runs as a service) have been detecting avast! presence from almost 4.5 version and above - forum please correct me if I'm wrong.

I personally don't use this service as it takes ram, system cycles and so on, but the the sympton you describe may be telling -between lines- that avast! is not correctly installed because as I said before the Security Center have been detecting avast! for a while.

May be too that this release of avast! have a bug and that's why SS is not detecting it correctly... please consult with avast! developers or advanced users

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Re: need help
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2006, 08:49:28 AM »
The red circle with a cross is NOT a Windows message. It is a scam. Please confirm by comparing to this image- there are many variants of this scam so the message may differ:

http://wiki.castlecops.com/Image:SpyFalcon-Alert.jpg

There is a removal toot for this type of scam here:

http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php

Please follow the instruction on the page and then run a full scan with Ewido anti-Trojan program:

http://www.ewido.net/en/
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