Malware Infestation - Antivirus XP 2008 |
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Today, on one of the busiest days of the year, I managed to mess up my laptop with a nice little bit of malware.
Antivirus XP 2008 is the name of this infamous plague. Not just a simple piece of software, but rather a cocktail of malware, trojan, downloader applications complementing each other, this scourge of the Internet managed to produce quite a bit of mayhem on my computer.
The story in short: You go to a website and you see one of those brightly coloured ads saying "Your computer might be infected with spyware. Click here to bla, bla, bla". You click. It installs. You're screwed.
You're probably thinking: "Are you really dumb enough to click on one of those banners?". Well, it seems the devil's tool has now found other forms of deployment as well. For instance, you might get it bundled in the installation kit of legitimate software, downloaded from an unofficial mirror, like I did. Beware!
Five hours later, allow me to share my newfound wisdom and knowledge by giving you the quick fix to getting rid of the whole damned thing.
Follow this tutorial first, then double-check with this list of files to make sure you removed all traces of the malware infestation.
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