Why am i recieving fake malware attacks on my computer?
i was sitting on fluther minding my own business, when all of a sudden my computer supposedly gets attacked by somthing..it turns out that the warning is actually the virus..eventually if you let the virus window open up, the virus is stuck there. Any ideas on how to slove this? oh and also..something is preventing me from yielding results from google..like if i searched up guitar tabs, it would take me to a random site advertising shampoo..
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Looks like your ship is wrecked in sand. Sorry, but I have a Mac.
Install ad-aware and maybe Spybot search & destroy too. Run them and clean up your system. Both are free and offer some realtime protection too, I try and remember to run a full scan with each at least once a fortnight. If you already have Windows Defender you could try running a full system scan with that too. I assume you already have some form of anti-virus protection.
@raredenver..this may sound a bit paranoid.but everytime i try googling a solution or if i try downloading any antivirus program..the virus takes me to an unrelated site =/
ShipwrecksinSand, that is what that virus does. I have seen it or related ones, and they are nasty difficult to clean, and make the computer annoying as heck to use in the meantime. If you aren’t very tech minded, I would find someone who is and who is good at virus fixing and likes doing it, which may well take paying a professional computer fixer. Or, installing Linux, which is what I did in one case.
That is what they do. They make it so you can’t get the cure. I uploaded a few good ones here. That should bypass the shit that they are doing since it is coming from my domain and mine shouldn’t be redirected. This is pretty common. And I urge you to get a good back-up strategy going. You computer has been hijacked and total data loss is possible if they want to do it.
And I promise that none of the software that I linked to above will hurt your computer. It is the newest versions of three programs that might help. I just zipped them up so you can download them. Warning.. It is rather large. 113 Megs.
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I just went through this a few weeks ago and my computer wound up so thoroughly borked that I changed all my passwords for various websites from my grandmother’s computer and did a full restore back to factory settings and started over from scratch on mine. Hope you have better luck than I did.
No you aren’t. Malware is IN your computer – it cannot attack it from anywhere.
Reboot your PC in Safe mode with networking support then download, install and scan with Malwarebytes.
After you clean-up the PC, install/activate your AntiVirus program. If you don’t have one or your subscription has expired. AVG9 free edition is pretty good.
its that stupid conficker viru!
NOOOO! @johnpowell I TRIED CLICKING YOUR LINK..it just tried attacking..AGAIN.
Reboot and start in safe mode first before you try to do anything else.
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