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Old February 19th 10, 07:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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Default Vista Antivirus Pro - malware

If it really were a virus, you couldn't do any such thing (and neither
could any of those programs).

"TheDuck" wrote in message
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If you had googled the virus there are any number of manual procedures
to remove it. Unfortunately you relied on this newsgroup and got only
the idiot answers of people trying to sell you on lame software. The
real approach is to Google it, learn what the virus really is and then
manually remove it.

"John" wrote in message
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Thanks for the website.
Unfortunately, this also did not clean my machine.
We ended up reformatting and reinstalling Vista.
So, now, all is well.

--
John


"??ç?l" wrote:

Hello John,

Try HijackThis
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic34773.html
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"John" wrote:

Thanks for the 2 links. Unfortunately, neither one of them
removed the Vista
Antivirus Pro malware. Any other suggestions?

--
John


"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Use the following 2 free tools to get rid of it

Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan
(separately) with the
following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to
use for this):

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/

MalwareBytes
http://www.malwarebytes.com/



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Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be
acknowledged.

"John" wrote in message
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I have a Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista. Vista Antivirus
Pro has
appeared and is creating havoc on my system. Is anyone
familiar with Vista
Antivirus Pro? I removed my laptop from my network and then I
ran a boot
scan with Avast! It said that it removed a Trojan, but today,
Vista
Antivirus Pro is back. I don't know what else to do.
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John

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