Scariest Sudden Viral Attack

[drenrin2120]

I wasn't on any sites I wasn't familiar with, I have two usually reliable anti-virus programs protecting me; still, out of no where, a warning popped up telling me my computer was infected and I had to download "Anti-virus Soft" immediately. In an instant, my task manager would not open, my anti-virus programs were shut down, any links to sites with steps to removing spyware, malware, virus, etc, were blocked, and opening system settings was disabled.

After about ten minutes of scrambling around just trying to find some way to fight back, I uploaded some last minute back up files to a flashcard and shut the computer off. When I started it back up, I immediately opened my task manager and closed and programs that looked suspicious before they started shutting me down again. Everything seems fine now, I'm running two full system scans and looking up ways to thoroughly make sure the problem is resolved.

Point and case: the last twenty minutes were scary as ****. Especially because this is my laptop and if any stupid virus corrupted it I would've been very sad. =(

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

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c wat i did thar?

[Prpl_Mage]

A hacker I bet.

[SaiKar]

The same thing happened to me a couple days ago.

The way I beat it was to stop it from loading at startup (control panels > programs > stop a program from loading at startup) and found something that had been added to the list only a few minutes ago and was an incoherent garble of letters. I removed it from the list then I restarted the computer. With the program not running on restart, I was free to smite it at my leisure.

Still, scary for a time.

[Valiere]

What OS are you guys using? I'm under the naive perception that Windows 7 will protect me from anything.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

That happened to me about a month ago. It happened around the time the charas hack thing. It started with adobe reader acting up and then not being able to open any anti virus sites.

In conscious, it is a virus of sorts, but I was able to get rid of by going back in time and a handy usb anti virus

[Darkfox]

This is that Rogue Antivirus, recently it has gotten especially malicious because people have started to find the makers of this virus. Their phone number, contact info, and other things got found out. They were making money at first but now they just want to mess people up out of anger.

[_JeT_]

I had that Antivirus Vista 2010 thing the other day, real annoying piece of garbage. Good thing I had my precious Malwarebytes kill the lousy thing...

[Ben]

Ive had that same pop-up before....but then windows7 kicked the **** out of it

[Darkfox]

...my precious...

D=

[fruckert]

Go grab Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, that'll take care of it guaranteed.

[Valiere]

Ive had that same pop-up before....but then windows7 kicked the **** out of it

That's what I wanted to hear.

[Grandy]

"Charas hack thing"? What did I miss?

[fruckert]

Oh, Charas got hacked.
Fucked everything up for a couple of days.

[drenrin2120]

Go grab Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, that'll take care of it guaranteed.

I'll give it a shot. I have Advanced System Care and the latest Avira now. I think I read somewhere that the "rogue virus" is the only thing the free version of avira doesn't check for so the customers will buy the full version. Kinda fucked up if you ask me, but I guess they DO have to make a profit.