New fake virus scam.

[loanrangiel]

My wife opened an attachment that was supposedly sent by a friend by it was actually a scam that tricks you into believing you have a virus by pretending to be an MS security product.
If you get a warning message from a program could Think point, you cant close it down by normal methods and it tries to get you to enter credit card details to purchase a full program.
A quick google shows you how to get rid of it, restart your pc and when it boots to a large MS looking box named Think point use task manager CTRL + ALT + DEL and under processes look for hotfix.exe and close it, then go to file>new task (run) and type explorer.
Close task manager and then use an anti spyware program like Malwarebytes or Super anti spyware to scan your hdd and delete the program.

[tagg]

what name is it going by MS Security ??

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[loanrangiel]

what name is it going by MS Security ??

Tagg

It was MS security essentials with a nice windows logo and all, it comes up in a nice big sky blue box with Think Point in large white font.

[best4less]

Did one the other day nice and easy did system restore to before the attack and then loaded Malawarebyte and did scan and then just ran a registry cleaner over the top and all fixed

One of the better ones LOL

[bigfella08]

Did one the other day nice and easy did system restore to before the attack and then loaded Malawarebyte and did scan and then just ran a registry cleaner over the top and all fixed

One of the better ones LOL

What registry cleaner do you use Mate ?

Thanks

Bigfella

[best4less]

Here ya go