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tlck9

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You have a security problem...
« on: December 31, 2008, 10:50:53 AM »
Can someone advice me, I am running Vista, I've had Avast now for 6 months and havent had any problems with Viruses.

However surfing on ebay yesterday, I suddenly got a message saying I have a security problem, some piece of software came up virusremover2008, saying that I had several viruses.

I immediately ran Avast and it said I had 3 which it put into the chest....however i'm still getting the "you have a security problem" and I keep being asked to download the virusremover2008 software

I have since ran the thorough avast, which turned up nothing at all, but I am still getting this message

Offline Tarq57

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Re: You have a security problem...
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2008, 11:44:16 AM »
This is a rogue antimalware program, and its variants have been reported more and more frequently over the past year or so, and especially over the last ~6months (based on my recollection of reports on forums.)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php (MBAM) is one of the antimalware scanners that has had a lot of success with this nasty. I believe it is installed by a variant of the vundo or virtumonde family of trojan. New variants are released frequently, which is possibly one of the reasons Avast hasn't nailed the one on your PC.
Download and install MalwareBytesAntiMalware, update it, and run a quick scan. Quarantine anything found. It might ask to delete files on reboot, if so, OK/Yes out of the prompt, and reboot straight away.
If you have problems with the scan, try it again in safe mode.
If you have problems installing MBAM, try re-naming the installer file.
If you can install it but then cannot open the program, navigate to the program file folder containing it, and rename the main executable.
Or if you have any other problems, please post back.

Another program with a very good reputation is http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html You might want to download and then run both (in turn).
In both cases, download the free version/s.
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ardvark

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Re: You have a security problem...
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2008, 11:53:30 AM »
Hi...

Although not directly related to the problem, I would also recommend installing SpywareBlaster...

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html#Principles

Best Regards... :)