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Fort Lauderdale, FL | Anonymous to the rescue? Wish I could get the hacker Anonymous Group to go after companies that trick uniformed personal computer users into thinking they have a threat on their computer and run a scan to remove it. The scan installs a very sophisticated malware program that hijacks their browser and renders their computer useless. It's impossible to remove unless you pay them for their software removal program. Otherwise only solution is to wipe your hard drive and reinstall OS which can be a problem for average computer user especially if they do not have install disk. Creates a nightmare for these folks. I am retired computer tech and help people with their computers for free and I continually encounter this problem. |
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| said by BytesDoc:Wish I could get the hacker Anonymous Group to go after companies that trick uniformed personal computer users into thinking they have a threat on their computer and run a scan to remove it. You could be about as effective by reporting the hosts that served the malware. That info is often in the browsing history.
said by BytesDoc:The scan installs a very sophisticated malware program that hijacks their browser and renders their computer useless. It's impossible to remove unless you pay them for their software removal program. Otherwise only solution is to wipe your hard drive. Not impossible to remove; merely difficult. I've removed dozens of dozens of these infestations and I've never had to wipe a drive.
That includes locating and removing the undetected rootkits that remain behind - in 10%-25% of the cases.
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