Beware of new Trojan

[buckaroo]

The wife acquired the latest Trojan, Windows Recovery which affects Windows 9x, XP, Vista, 2000 and Windows 7. Its an ornery little bugger and who knows where you can get it. It will look like a real Windows security alert and begin to scan your computer, telling you that there are some errors that need to be fixed. It prompts you to purchase a program to fix those errors. What the Trojan does is to change the attributes to all or most programs to hidden which gives you the impression that your hard drive has been wiped clean. It isn't! Read all about it here...http://www.precisesecurity.com/rogue/windows-recovery/
I've now at least got here computer to where she can see most of her programs, though they are still ghost like, but are all usable. I've yet to get back the desktop and start menu back in order. But she can use it to it's full capacity now.

 

[VaDirt]

The wife acquired the latest Trojan, Windows Recovery which affects Windows 9x, XP, Vista, 2000 and Windows 7. Its an ornery little bugger and who knows where you can get it. It will look like a real Windows security alert and begin to scan your computer, telling you that there are some errors that need to be fixed. It prompts you to purchase a program to fix those errors. What the Trojan does is to change the attributes to all or most programs to hidden which gives you the impression that your hard drive has been wiped clean. It isn't! Read all about it here...http://www.precisesecurity.com/rogue/windows-recovery/
I've now at least got here computer to where she can see most of her programs, though they are still ghost like, but are all usable. I've yet to get back the desktop and start menu back in order. But she can use it to it's full capacity now.

Hmm, I thought you were going to discuss a flaw in a condom.

 

[BobbyFord]

The wife acquired the latest Trojan, Windows Recovery which affects Windows 9x, XP, Vista, 2000 and Windows 7. Its an ornery little bugger and who knows where you can get it. It will look like a real Windows security alert and begin to scan your computer, telling you that there are some errors that need to be fixed. It prompts you to purchase a program to fix those errors. What the Trojan does is to change the attributes to all or most programs to hidden which gives you the impression that your hard drive has been wiped clean. It isn't! Read all about it here...http://www.precisesecurity.com/rogue/windows-recovery/
I've now at least got here computer to where she can see most of her programs, though they are still ghost like, but are all usable. I've yet to get back the desktop and start menu back in order. But she can use it to it's full capacity now.

What anti-virus software are you running?

 

[buckaroo]

What anti-virus software are you running?

Avast

 

[Mopardh9]

Avast

AVG 2011? It should of picked it up right away, I know mine does. I've been using AVG for 7 years, one of if not the best programs out there. Also much cheaper than Norton and Mckaffee.

 

[buckaroo]

AVG 2011? It should of picked it up right away, I know mine does. I've been using AVG for 7 years, one of if not the best programs out there. Also much cheaper than Norton and Mckaffee.

This is a very new Trojan. Been using Avast on all my computers for years. I suspect that with the amount of people who have gotten this dern thing that not all anti-virus programs have been up-dated for it.

I feel like a computer tech now though. Although I haven't yet got the wife's laptop back to where it was, she can access everything aleit a little more difficult. But I also got my newest desktop back to where it was, even a little better. It wouldn't get past the BIOS screen and I thought I had lost everything. After a month or so, I decided to see if I could do something. It seems that this is also not an isolated incident. I read all sorts of ways to fix this problem, but most of them talked about using programs on the computer. Duh, if you can't access the computer, you can't use any programs. I also read that flashing the BIOS, but I've done that before and talk about a pain. Finally, I read where I should try removing the battery and then putting it back in. Viola, that did the trick, but I had to reset many of what I had before. Just one more thing to change, but I don't think I need to do that.

 

[Magnethead]

AVG 2011? It should of picked it up right away, I know mine does. I've been using AVG for 7 years, one of if not the best programs out there. Also much cheaper than Norton and Mckaffee.

AVG here as well