Antivirussoft.exe

[SteamWake]

I have had the pleasure of having an machine infected with this insidious malware at work...

Now I am not unfamiliar with dealing with buggered machines but this one threw me a bunch of new curves.

"All 'I' know is 'I' clicked on a drawing file and this thingy popped up saying its infected and if 'I' want to fixt it"... "Did you click anything?" I ask. "No you told me not to...". "Good thanks.. may I please have your chair?"

She gets up and peers over my shoulder. I click the no button (hell no was not available) and up pops another window... [This computer is under attack ! By hooded demons in Saigon] and POP up comes some random porn site... AWKWARD

I reach for the reset button... and well I never bothered to hook it up... this just keeps gettin better. Press and hold and after 12 seconds of a strange mix of arousal and embarrasment pass the machine goes click and a black screen.

After apologies... "Would you mind finding another computer while I fix this one?" and off she went... no winks no nuttin

Back on topic.

Rebooot... as soon as the desktop is up I notice updates not running.. then a few moments later... "Your coumputer is infected !", click no, get rid of random page pop... viagra this time (even though i had pulled the net cable).

What made this particular malware so infurating was that it would not let you open any other freakin app. Not even explorer, couldent even run regedit.. honest !

So off to another machine to find the cure...

Boot in safe mode.... find and eleminate obscure files with random names. Regedit obscure keys with random names.. Reboot (normal mode), do a system roll back, re-install antivirus (norton), update, get windows updates, system scan (2.5 hours), more windows updates,.....

I left it doing another system scan after I checked that local net work and internet access worked. I then locked the internet access

I made sure the windows automatic update was on.

Sheese.. she cost me a whole freakin day.

I really wish I could bring some sort of legal action aginst 'Antirvusoft'.

By the way I highly recommend avoiding their website and product. They use bully and scare tactics to force unaware users into paying for they 'protection' and left with little.