| As the title says, a scareware virus has shut down my computer. I want to give everyone a heads up about it as it looks like a legit anti-virus ad. It's called 'Internet Security 2010'. If you become infected with this virus or fall for the sales pitch that comes with it, you can compromise your log in information for any site you sign into. It showed up when I tried to log in to my photobucket account and when I tried to close out the screen it popped up in, it locked me out of the photobucket site and I couldn't make it go away. My wife is a bit of a computer geek and she searched around on her computer and found a removal method, but it didn't work. I'm now locked out of my computer as it now won't let me log in. I'm doing all my online stuff from my Iphone right now. I want everyone to be aware of this as it now looks like I'm going to have to buy a new computer and hope that a tech can retrieve all my photos off of my hard drive. I hope none of you encounter this virus in any of it's four known copys. And before anyone asks, my anti-virus software (AVG) detected it, but couldn't remove it. Last edited on Mon Feb 1st, 2010 01:09 am by murphy j
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