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Wow, I have to say, be careful. I have kaspersky internet security actively running on my computer. I was on a legitimate website about how to design blog templates. I downloaded nothing. I accepted nothing. Am a very wise to the ways of "internet tricks" and all of a sudden it popped up. The security 2010 issue. Of course, even though it does look very microsoft legit, I didn't trust it from the get go because I've had my computer 3 years and never had any software on it that resembled this - but it actually installed an icon in my control panel. I did possibly consider that maybe microsoft loaded this virus program in my last update. But then I did click a link to close it and it took me to a page to purchase the program. I didn't click anything else at that point concerned of activating anything. And I opened my browser (I had already closed it) and it gave me an error page that stated it wouldn't let me go further do to security threats. It didn't look like the cheesy black warning screen above. It still looked very legit. BUT it didn't make sense. MS isn't going to load a program onto my computer in an update that blocks my browsing and then makes me pay to "fix" my computer before I can do anything else. At that point I ran kasperky update to get the latest (which was only 24 hrs old at the time) virus file. And I ran a complete scan on my computer - it didn't find anything. So, I didn't touch anything. I went to my laptop to research what hijacked my computer. My computer shut down and rebooted (which it is prone to do when a MS update comes in - I now know I need to change that setting). When it came back up - and I log in - the only thing that comes up is the security 2010 program with the link to "upgrade" so that it can fix the "Detected problems". Nothing else appeared on my computer - no start menu - nothing. So I shut down and log into a different user. It actually loads proper. I don't go anywhere near my browser. We went to the store and bought a backup drive and I'm backing up all my personal files while researching what this thing is to get rid of it - which is how I found this page.
So Mr. Glass House - before you throw stones - I was actively running the security program you have and on a legitimate website and it happened to me. Luckily I am taking care of it. It seems to me that no virus programs seem to find everything. I downloaded MSE onto my USB and loaded it on my computer and am currently running it, but after that I'm gonna do the 8 tests and get some help. Cause obviously this program doesn't find everything.
So Mr. Glass House - before you throw stones - I was actively running the security program you have and on a legitimate website and it happened to me. Luckily I am taking care of it. It seems to me that no virus programs seem to find everything. I downloaded MSE onto my USB and loaded it on my computer and am currently running it, but after that I'm gonna do the 8 tests and get some help. Cause obviously this program doesn't find everything.