Spyware Protect 2009

[FCollinsBuckeye]

I got infected with 'Spyware Protect 2009' yesterday while on BP. Actually, I clicked on someones link to 'the superficial' or something and WHAM. That sonofabitch was hard to remove, but I think I got it.

It's a sneaky Malware program that appears to give you a spyware warning - I was smart enough to know it was bogus, but it came complete with lots of popups and warnings. It looked very 'legit', plus, it blocked every website I tried to visit, instead giving me a 'that site isn't safe, click this link to install 'spyware protect 2009' or something.

So, after several spybot S&D scans and a restarts, I removed it. I checked a few sites to be sure and it appears I've removed everything it had installed. I was still having problems connecting to any website, but after reseting my IE configs and LAN settings, everything appears to be normal.

Anyway, be careful what you click...

 

[Dryden]

ALT + F4

Whenever you visit a site or click a link and it starts spawning popups, do not click them. Don't click anywhere in them, and don't click the windows that contain them either. What a lot of hackers (though I prefer to call these people mother-fucking-cocksuckers, it's an industry term) are doing now is creating java/flash/DHTML iframe & layered popups that don't appear in Windows' window frames, instead the frame borders you see are also part of the popup, so the advice to click 'X' in the top right corner isn't even good.

Once the cascade begins, click ALT + F4 as fast as you can, or hard power off/pull the plug and deal with scandisk on reboot. Don't click any of it.