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No point to this post, except maybe to say BEWARE. My wife's new laptop, Vista SP1 with McAfee Security Suite somehow got infected with a monster called Antivirus 2009. We don't have the slightest idea how, unless via some email video or through one of her music CDs, although the music stuff is on her XP desktop and no problems.

McAfee Security Suite didn't catch it - obviously. From what I gather during a search for a solution, no antivirus program can remove this very, very pesky program. We've battled with it for several hours now, and finally came up with something called Malwarebyte Anti-Malware, or something like that and are in the process of running it. Hopefully this MBAM will fix the problem.

Maybe this will convince her to install Sandboxie or maybe geswall if it stops these things. I've tried for a year to get her to use Sandboxie with no luck. My wife goofed. She told me after we got rid of it with SAS that when it appeared she had tried to uninstall it. I think that was a mistake. This thing was a nightmare that cost us the entire evening.

MBAM removed 2 files. When we finished, it re-appeared. SuperAntiSpyware got rid of a large number of files scattered all over the place. So far, after 15 minutes and a reboot, it hasn't come back. Sorry if this post doesn't make a lot of sense.

It's almost 2AM Mountain Time here and I'm wasted from fighting it. This program tries to extort money from you in order to be able to remove it. Seems like that ought to be illegal. Thanks HURST and dw426 for the superantispyware suggestion. It seems to have worked.

I'm praying that tomorrow when she boots up, it doesn't show its nasty self. I told her this wouldn't have happened with Sandboxie and got a dirty look.

My daughter stumbled upon a similar one last night while searching for Webkinz toys. She called me over so, just for kicks, I only went as far as seen in the screenshots before backing out.

It's one of those rogue companies that warns your pc is running slow then offers to scan it for free. It comes up with fake malware and advises you to install their product, after which you can only remove them if you pay. Look very closely at the shots and in two of them you can spot the poor syntax/grammar - a telltale sign of a bogus product. Also of interest is what it does to the browser's window, shrinking it and/or moving it across the screen in an attempt to hide the 'close' button. My daughter stumbled upon a similar one last night while searching for Webkinz toys. She called me over so, just for kicks, I only went as far as seen in the screenshots before backing out. It's one of those rogue companies that warns your pc is running slow then offers to scan it for free.

Eharmony Password Dump Windows. It comes up with fake malware and advises you to install their product, after which you can only remove them if you pay. Look very closely at the shots and in two of them you can spot the poor syntax/grammar - a telltale sign of a bogus product. Also of interest is what it does to the browser's window, shrinking it and/or moving it across the screen in an attempt to hide the 'close' button. This one goes on to 'scan' after hitting cancel or close.

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