RE: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

Author: David Smith

Posted: 2010-08-12 at 07:37:13

Combofix from bleepingcomputerdotCom will take care of it for you.

-----Original Message-----

From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP

Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:14 AM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Cc: profoxtech@leafe.com; Michael Madigan

Subject: Re: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

I use *http://www.malwarebytes.org/* - the free version. I update

manually daily.

-- *Charles* --

Website: TinyURL.com/EnzerMD <http://tinyurl.com/EnzerMD>

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability"

William Osler, M.D.

On 8/11/2010 9:12 PM, Michael Madigan wrote:

> I picked up extortion malware at a well-known political blog. I think I'm

safer surfing porno sites now.

>

> I still haven't found the solution yet. I've tried compufix and it didn't

fix it.

>

> AVG did not detect it.

>

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