Friday, October 03, 2008

Smitfraud Fix

I got another virus today. This one was called “Total Secure 2009” and it was nasty.
The latest round of viruses, malware, spyware, adware, or pain the the rear ware, are known as smitfraud. I don’t know why.
I have some high end antivirus software from NOD 32 that got 77 files cleaned when I ran a scan but it still didn’t get rid of this nasty bugger.
Anyway, the way they work is that they pop up continuously saying that you need to use their new and trusty tool. You have to pay for the tool which is named something that appears to look like a legitimate anti virus program. The tool probably does no good or only clears you of the current program they invented for a year or so. Either way, hooligans will now have your credit card info.
No dice!
If you get one of these just look up “Smitfraud Fix” and download the free tool from one of the sites that have the link. Open your computer in safe mode and run the program. It will get it fixed in about 10 minutes.
I got mine here.
http://www.pchubs.com/blogs/totalsecure2009-removal-process-remove-total-secure-2009
Scroll down the page until you see the heading that reads “Automatically Remove TotalSecure 2009”
This is great considering that a similar piece of crap virus cost me all the info on our home computer only a month ago.

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