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Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By
Mar. 14th, 2013 06:40 amSomething tried to hijack my computer yesterday. I was running a Full Scan with PC Tools Internet Security, and it noticed something. I was suspicious about it. And when whatever this thing was realized it was noticed, it went into action. Shut down PC Tools Internet Security. Shut down System Restore. Shut down every program that could possibly help me. Threw up a fake antivirus notice that wanted me to download it to get access to everything else, and force me to pay to fix what wasn’t broken. I'm not an idiot, so I knew better than to click on anything
It wouldn’t stop with the whole thing (for those that wonder, the fake is called Disk Antivirus Professional) so I turned it off until Dad made it home. We teamed up, considered wiping the whole thing clean and starting over. Got back in through Safe Mode, without getting that accursed pop-up, and I tested System Restore. It worked there, so I had an idea. I was able to get in. Went back in time to before this mess started. Started up PC Tools safely, got rid of the thing last night. If it ever returns, it knows to throw it in Quarantine and it's on the blocked list.
So now, off to read my friends list and see what I missed. (And I have saved anything I desperately need, that hadn’t already been saved, to the external hard drive. Just in case.)
(So Fannish Items will be yesterday and today combined this afternoon, and I’m off to catch up on everything I missed from 1 PM to this morning.)
It wouldn’t stop with the whole thing (for those that wonder, the fake is called Disk Antivirus Professional) so I turned it off until Dad made it home. We teamed up, considered wiping the whole thing clean and starting over. Got back in through Safe Mode, without getting that accursed pop-up, and I tested System Restore. It worked there, so I had an idea. I was able to get in. Went back in time to before this mess started. Started up PC Tools safely, got rid of the thing last night. If it ever returns, it knows to throw it in Quarantine and it's on the blocked list.
So now, off to read my friends list and see what I missed. (And I have saved anything I desperately need, that hadn’t already been saved, to the external hard drive. Just in case.)
(So Fannish Items will be yesterday and today combined this afternoon, and I’m off to catch up on everything I missed from 1 PM to this morning.)