 Name GamePremium
join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
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Re: MonaRonaDona "virus"? said by Kas :
Thank you for the removal tool, bcastner.
For Windows Vista it worked from safe mode.
I installed Spotmau WinCare 2008 on the same date SRVPOOL was created on my computer. I'm wondering if there is any connection between them. Did anybody who had Spotmau installed got this problem?
Can you tell us the reasons and steps that led you to even download and install Spotmau WinCare 2008 in the first place ?
Thanks
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Re: MonaRonaDona "virus"? Yes, I also downloaded that very program, and that's how MY MonaRonaDona appeared, and I can't deleat the SRVPOOL, because my access is denied, but I am the Administrator on my PC, and I don't know what to do. I would say try to do a disk de-fragment, and do a disk clean-up, and then do a virus scan. That should help a little bit. Try it, and if it doesn't help, then IO don't know. |
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 EGeezerSummertimePremium
join:2002-08-04
Midwest
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| Take it from a fellow Appalachian-American - the folks in the cleanup forum are top-notch people, many of whom are industry-recognized experts. Take the issue over there, follow the bouncing ball and you'll get rid of MRD and any other malware that may be infesting your system
Of course you could pay some big box store tech a couple hundred smackers to borrow your files to their USB dongles, wipe your drive and reinstall Windows 
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MonaRonaDona revealed I almost fell victim to the "space issue". Here is my revised post.
Registryfix is the culprit in this social engineering scheme. The "testimonial" of Jim Brown on the website, is from the same (no doubt) alias that is in the postings pointing to the bogus virusscanner.
The program is featured on a sponsored link on Google »pc-tools-review.com/
It now becomes very tricky to distinguish legit reviews from illegit reviews. Also, on »pc-tools-review.com/ more products get reviewed. I am now not sure that the registry scanner is the only dowload that will infect the computer with the MonaRonaDona problem.
You have to hand it to these guys: they did come up with a pretty elaborate, clever scam.
Type in "registryfix.com" in the google search box and you'll understand how elaborate and potentially widespread and dangerous this scam is.
The trick is in the space between registry and fix. "Registry fix 2008" is a legitimate scanner by Registryfixer Inc. "Registryfix" is the scam (ww.registryfix.com) and gets featured on numerous "comparison" sites, some may be legit (editor error by leaving out the space) and some may be part of the scam (like the link »pc-tools-review.com/)
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