KrisMcNic2!
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Since yesterday morning (Nov 25th) I have been hit almost every 1 to 3 minutes by Fake alerts telling me that I have been infected by SpyWorm.Win32 or Trojan-Spy.Win32@MX or SpyBot@MXE or Net Worm-iVirus @fp to name a few. Then I am sent to buy or download from Anti Spyware Guard, or Windows Anti Virus 2008 being sold by Yewgate Ltd., or to download from www.systemtrigger.com. There are probably a few others but I did not really dig in any deeper. But they are all a scam as far as I can figure out.
I was pretty sure of how I got infected, was advised to update my Activex control, but I should have backed out when there was no signature to the update. I should have known better. I went in & deleted and or uninstalled the suspicious items that had appeared then did a scan with AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.175 which found Trojan horse Agent.4.u . Scanned again & came up clean, but the problem did not go away so ran SmitfraudFix (which cured a similar problem previously) & it found a few more items, but still the problem exists even after running Smit 4 or 5 times. Also since then I have been hit by Trojan horse Agent.4.u again plus Trojan horse FakeAlert.BD, Trojan horse FakeAlert.CA, Trojan horse Downloader. Zlob.AHHE which AVG picked up during scans. I suspect that this one is dialing out for want of a better word & importing other bad things.
I have started the your 8 Step program but have a question @ Step #4. Do I dissable AVG anti virus. Just want to make sure as it is not in the CastleKops dissable list. I am a little slow at times & it has taken me a while to learn that download means run and/or open not save but I am improving.
It looks like a lot of people are having the same problem so that is why I listed the hits & the redirects. Somebody should pull their access to the internet and/or prosecute them for Fraud as this is going to probably get a lot of people to buy a product to fix something that was created by the seller.
I was pretty sure of how I got infected, was advised to update my Activex control, but I should have backed out when there was no signature to the update. I should have known better. I went in & deleted and or uninstalled the suspicious items that had appeared then did a scan with AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.175 which found Trojan horse Agent.4.u . Scanned again & came up clean, but the problem did not go away so ran SmitfraudFix (which cured a similar problem previously) & it found a few more items, but still the problem exists even after running Smit 4 or 5 times. Also since then I have been hit by Trojan horse Agent.4.u again plus Trojan horse FakeAlert.BD, Trojan horse FakeAlert.CA, Trojan horse Downloader. Zlob.AHHE which AVG picked up during scans. I suspect that this one is dialing out for want of a better word & importing other bad things.
I have started the your 8 Step program but have a question @ Step #4. Do I dissable AVG anti virus. Just want to make sure as it is not in the CastleKops dissable list. I am a little slow at times & it has taken me a while to learn that download means run and/or open not save but I am improving.
It looks like a lot of people are having the same problem so that is why I listed the hits & the redirects. Somebody should pull their access to the internet and/or prosecute them for Fraud as this is going to probably get a lot of people to buy a product to fix something that was created by the seller.