Virus? maybe

[Kyten]

I'm having a problem with a virus or something of sorts i got sometime last night it keeps popping up saying i have spyware and redirects me to Antivirus System PRO Powerfull PC Protection. I can't find it on my PC to get rid of it and it's starting to piss me off because it keeps popping up every 2 minutes or so. Note: the site is now blocked but how do i get this off of my PC?

[Kaisha]

Good ol' spyware.

MalwareBytes Anti-Malware should be able to deal with it if it's in its library definitions, which unfortunately I can't tell if it is or not, but worth a shot.

[Kyten]

How do you get spyware? so I can prevent it in the future.

[Kaisha]

Usually through security exploits in a web-browser.

Firefox + No-Script & Ad-Block+ extensions make you close to bulletproof on majority of attacks out there, long as they're configured properly.

[Kyten]

Yeah it wasn't there until my friend started to use the PC after I went to bed lulz. So it found 6 corrupt files but do I have to wait until it's completely done scanning to fix them?

[Kaisha]

Wait until it's finished, and it should give you an option to fix them. (or potentially automatically, can't recall since I've not used MB Anti-Malware in awhile, but it does the trick for the most part)

[Kyten]

Well, the virus is called Trojan:win32/FakeSpypro but I tried to kill it with window's defender and it didn't work. I quarantined it but it didn't help. I'm not very PC savvy so if that helps at all let me know :3

[Kriz]

A guide and tutorial on using ComboFix and you're good.

MalwareBytes + Combofix = one-two punch.

[Kyten]

Thanks for the help, combofix raped it for me. :D

[Alishe]

I think Combofixit also fixed my laptop problem, where after having it on for a long time, some malware would rape it overtime to the point there was no virtual memory left. I'd then have to restart it and it would slowly eat the memory again.

So far, after running it this morning my PF Usage is still normal. So thanks from me too.

[Kriz]

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