Another Virus/Scam

[Sassy]

Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up on a virus we came across on Sunday. Everlast was on his computer and he's virus protection comes up with a message saying that his computer has a bunch of virus, 700 worms, a # of Trojans, etc. It showed a lot of problems, so I take a look at it and I'm thinking holy sh!t! this is going to take forever to clean his computer which is brand new. He hasn't even had it a month. I'm swamped as usual trying to get some work finish and I still had his payable and payroll to do. I click on it to start cleaning up his computer. It then gives me a message saying I need to renew his virus subscription. I figured it was probably a 30 day subscription, so I click on ok. It opens the internet to a window and I enter my CC#. I'm giving a registration key... that's when it realized something was wrong. It wouldn't give me an option to enter the key#. I go back to the website. There is no home page. Nothing further other than the one page for to purchase and the registration key #. That's when it hit me... I've been SCAMMED!!!

I'm so pissed at this point, because I'm so careful about this kind of stuff. I always check this stuff out first. My mind is pretty much mush and I can hardly keep up with sh!t as is. I call my credit card company and sure enough. It's a virus called AVG 360. They are playing on AVG's antivirus software and Norton's 360. They are stealing credit card #'s, so I had to cancel my card. Then go to Norton's and remove the virus. It turns out there wasn't but one virus on his computer and no Trojans or worms.

The IT guys at work told me there is another one that is much worse called AVG 2009, and it will take over your computer. There is no way at this time to clean it up other than reformatting your hard drive.

Be sure and check your anti-virus software if it comes up with an alert and make sure it's really your software and not something else. Don't order any virus software over the internet unless you go directly to their website or buy one from the store.

 

[mooshue]

yea that avg2009 is no good.

That's a classic (if there is such a thing being so new) phishing scam. They are phishing for suckers who will hand over their personal information.

Good rule, your virus scanner wont pop up and tell you you have to click somewhere to scan or buy or whatever.
Windows will never pop up and tell you to click somewhere or scan or buy.

If you see that, close the POPUP window and ignore it, just stay off those sites.