thumpersalley Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Last week I was on a website researching something & a screen popped up. It was wanting me to download something to the effect of a virus protection software. Of course I did what most would do & clicked on the X on the upper right corner. Bad mistake. What I should have done, according to our computer programmer friend, was to turn the computer off & reboot, therefore not clicking on it at all. The virus was called a "joker" virus. He said is was designed to download no matter what you clicked on, eventually ask for your credit card info so it could download the program to "fix" the virus. Then after a month or so it would shut itself off even without paying. It took him 3 hours to fix it. I wanted to share this info with everyone on my email lists. Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylaster Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 also as any fyi there is a program called combofix that kills a lot of those types of viruses / malware. You can find it on bleepingcomputer.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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