Hi JoeBlack,
It did. Although my friend was running the latest versions of MBAM and Avast, this nasty piece of work completely nuked his computer.
That is why I have gone to so much effort in trying to provide Avast and MBAM with a sample. My friend was devastated due to the loss of valuable data. Moreover, the blood, sweat and tears involved in reformatting and reconstructing his computer.....
That agony I would like to spare other Avast and MBAM users. Hopefully Avast will now be able to specifically identify this virus and kill it.
I would again like to stress, as per my previous post, that the blame lies with my friend and I. Avast does a brilliant job and is my number one choice for anti-virus software. Our stupidity cannot be made up for.
Best regards,
Avastfan1