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TR WARNING!!! 'Virus Protect Pro'

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by older mycroft

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The following is a copy of a PeerMail I sent to CaptBillyOneEye a few minutes ago:

Well, I ran just about every anti-virus option available on the UBCD disc - no joy.

Checked on the net and found copious entries for 'Virus Protect Pro' which my sad mate, had contracted whilst visiting certain sites pertaining to the scrotal regions of his body. In other words - the w*nk*r was into pron sites.

This virus is particulary F*KKING nasty. Every which way I turned - it popped up.
Couldn't install anything from memory stick.
Couldn't access Vista-proper.
Couldn't access Vista in safe mode WITHOUT the virus.
Couldn't access Windows Explorer from anywhere.
Couldn't stop the virus popping up.

Couldn't run System Restore successfully - tried three pre-virus restore points and each one failed to complete "due to system error".

Only option - Full Destructive Recovery. (After five and a half hours of trying)

Let this be a warning to all and sundry - THIS VIRUS KILLS!!!

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by mjwx

on the CFO's laptop so a complete Nuke and Pave wasn't an option. It seems to be a bit less destructive on XP, fscking annoying popups everywhere, it took 4 hours to get rid of all the bloody spyware that this thing had installed.

by charliespencer

I saw it about a month ago. The user says it was from the hotel's wireless system. Yeah, right. I didn't have to start from scratch, but it took most of an afternoon to scrape the mutha off.

by charliespencer

Different user, different hotel.

Theory: We disable the Windows firewall in our environment. As long as the user sticks with our VPN client when he's out of the building, and uses VPN to access our proxy server, no problems. However, many users will disable the network settings in IE, allowing them to avoid the hassle of the VPN login, use the hotel's Internet connection, and hit those web sites blocked by the proxy server. Since they're now surfing without the company security, and the local Windows firewall is off, they're running naked and vulnerable.

Make sense to anybody else, or am I full of crud? If I'm making sense, I'd like to send out a warning against bypassing the VPN or changing the proxy server settings. Then we'll look at a group policy to prevent them from changing the settings.

by older mycroft

Announce to the world that I was a recovering narcissist!

'Coz like alcoholics, you'll never be cured! There's way too many mirrors around for that, including download sites.

by don ticulate

slate me when I berate another YET...
do exactly the same yourself to another.

We have an opening....

by locrian_lyric

"How do I love me, let me count the ways"

"I am a many splendard thing"

Let's not forget his favorite music...

"Oh lord it's hard to be humble"

Geez, this guy is so in love with himself, he kisses himself goodnight!

by locrian_lyric

if you were as important to everyone else as you are to yourself, you'd have more notoriety than Mahatma Ghandi.

by don ticulate

I have enough above to complain to TR about now - your accounts will be shutdown soon I guess.

Note how I refrained from any REAL nasty comments unlike you two.

by older mycroft

This "pishy wee toon" is the Royal Burgh of Tain.

Oh,yeah, and again FYI I'm not 'from' Tain - I was born and educated in Glasgow, worked in Glasgow, Crawley, London, Chessington, Croydon, Horsham, Guildford, Oslo, Trondheim,
Paris, Agadir to name but a few.

Tain is where I have CHOSEN to be for the remainder of my life and I can assure you it is far more popular as a place than you will ever be as a person.

by older mycroft

So you finally realised that when you tied it the 'wrong' way, no matter whether you look at it from the front OR the back, it's still swinging the wrong way in whatever wind there is.

by espiii2001

Spent a lot of time manually deleting from various places, including the registry, with no effect. Ran all my spyware and virus programs. Same result. Finally downloaded, and ran a complete scan on all drives, SuperAntiSpyware FREE. Scans everything, found 86 more instances of virus protect pro. Removed them AND the stupid flashing icon with its popup warning!!

by Former member

Good day to you...read the forum as i was browsing on how to get rid of the viruses in my pc. I was asked about the serial number of the Virus Protect Pro so I could threat the viruses. What does it mean? can u please help me with it? thanks...please email me back at cathy_g23@yahoo.com thanks a lot!

by nicknielsen

And IE will hold the settings, so when they're done, all they have to do is go back in and select the proxy option.

Send your warning.

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