My sisters close friend calls me today. She has this security center virus on her home XP. It appears as a desktop icon, yellow and black stripes, and it tries to get her CC info, as well as blocking access to certain websites.
I've found some forum resources discussing it, and some "pay for this" removal tool links.
She's fairly computer illiterate, and lives too far away for me to drop by and fix it manually.
Anyone have a link to a removal tool for this that doesn't require a page full of instructions and manual registry editing?
Still looking myself, thought I'd ask the army stationed here as well....
security center virus
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Re: security center virus
a new popular tool called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware seems to do the trick from what I've read. Our desktop IT guys like it a lot actually as well.
directions/info for you:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware ... ritycenter
Another dos based one seems to do the trick as well:
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
Good luck!
directions/info for you:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware ... ritycenter
Another dos based one seems to do the trick as well:
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
Good luck!
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Re: security center virus
Hey ET,
I found both of those yesterday as well. Had to weed through a bunch of old forums to find them.
Supposedly she's trying MWB today in safe mode. I didn't send over the other one yet.
I found both of those yesterday as well. Had to weed through a bunch of old forums to find them.
Supposedly she's trying MWB today in safe mode. I didn't send over the other one yet.
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KC Scott
Re: security center virus
Excellent pick - I picked up a malware called MS Antivirus 2009 which did much the same thing and Malwarebytes zapped it.ElTaco wrote:a new popular tool called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware seems to do the trick from what I've read. Our desktop IT guys like it a lot actually as well.
directions/info for you:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware ... ritycenter
Re: security center virus
Ditto.KC Scott wrote:Excellent pick - I picked up a malware called MS Antivirus 2009 which did much the same thing and Malwarebytes zapped it.ElTaco wrote:a new popular tool called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware seems to do the trick from what I've read. Our desktop IT guys like it a lot actually as well.
directions/info for you:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware ... ritycenter
Used this software to remove security center virus and antivirus number 1 today on client machine.