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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Search the web for this virus protection you got and the remove proceedures. There are plenty FREE virus programs that completely ruin your computer. Sometimes to the point of reformating the whole thing. There was one called AXE that was real ugly and there was several steps to take in getting rid of it.
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I had this one that hit my machine at work called "PSGuard". Oh my god, what a piece of Gorillaware from hell.
First clue something was wrong was a fake BSD. I knew it was fake because for some odd reason i could still see my desktop icons. It did alot of other BS, along with setting the desktop wallpaper to a fake BSOD screen. I dont remember all it exactly did, but i just remembered i coudlnt get rid of the bastard. Amazingly enough, this antiviral remover, calld "PS Guard" was all to available.
I dont remember if it installed itself at the time of the fake BSOD or not. I do remember doing websearch's on the particualr bug that hit me, and PSguard kept coming up as a solution. HA hA. Not realizing what it was, (and assuming it was something a buddy of mine might have installed for me, - he does that sometimes), i ran the stupid thing. Ran sort of like any other Adware program. And Oh, suuuure it I'D the problem right away, and would remove it.. if i regestered the program. Looking it up on their webpage ( i woudlnt even attempt to look at their page on my home computer for fear of getting infected), regestration cost 40$. I said screw that, and come to find out, PSGuard installed like 300 other spyware items in my systems regestery.
Towards the end of this debacle, i was able to contain PSGuard (kept coming up and reinstalling itself), but i wasnt able to eliminate it entirely. Residual traces stayed in that box, no matter how hard i tried. And ive gotten rid of those nasty ass russian made spywares out of a system, but this one kicked my ass. Nothing short of a vist to reformat land ultimatly got rid of that bloody thing.