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Well, as I said.. Only if 'out of thin air'. If it's not too much trouble, even in cases like these.
Here be fresh blogpost, with screencaps, in French.
Well, as I said.. Only if 'out of thin air'. If it's not too much trouble, even in cases like these.
Here be fresh blogpost, with screencaps, in French.
[QUOTE=Lemur;985577]Nice point. That's why it's also equally important not to just arbitrarily click "OK" on things, even if you think it's safe, it doesn't hurt to have a second look before that final click.
I tend to scan stuff I download before installing, even though it has been scanned during the download process. You never know. And as pointed out, even savvy users can get got.
I saw something similar to this. I was browsing Google Images for *Nix desktops and one of the pages was a re-direct. It ran an animated gif that looked exactly like MSE and threw up a pop-up prompting me to download a scanner for my computer. I have delt with these in the past so I knew it was a scam. I force-closed all windows and scanned with Malware-Bytes and MSE and found nothing. I am glad I didn't click on it.
All from just browsing google images.....
Be careful out there friends!
And good luck to you mdcyclist and Richy1204.
I always have two programs hotkeyed and ready for use. They are not for removal of malware, but can free up resources quickly or stop programs from running while trying to get rid of the threat.
Autoruns (for list of all programs and files running at startup):
Autoruns for Windows
Process Explorer (for list of all programs and files currently running in realtime):
Process Explorer
Last edited by Thorsen; 29 Sep 2010 at 13:38. Reason: changed hijack to re-direct for clarification
The instructions at Bleeping Computer work for the Fake MSE. See Remove the Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Trojan and AntiSpySafeguard.