Solution to Personal Antivirus Software Virus Attack
Have you ever experienced that sick feeling that comes when you realize your PC has been compromized by a virus? Well, yesterday I experienced exactly that experience.
A very insidious virus penetrated the shield provided by McAffee Antivirus software on our system that runs on the XP operating system. The virus is insidious in part because it calls itself “Personal Antivirus Software.” The virus results in a yellow shield icon in the notification area of your windows taskbar. From this spot irritating messages constantly appear that insist your system is infected with various worms and other bad viruses. This is all an attempt to get you to pay your hard earned cash to upgrade the “Personal Antivirus Software” to provide protection to your system. While the virus was present we experienced various “balloon” messages claiming the presence of many existing infections to the system which were totally fabricated.
I found it challenging to locate a solution for this problem. When searching for solutions through my Windows browser, many web sites came up that appeared to me be be just further attacks from the same source. I noticed some of the web sites themselves would probably result in viruses since they appear to be from China. At first I attempted to download a solution from PC Tools, but that would not work since apparently the authors of this virus have blocked consumers from accessing well known vendors of antivirus software. A red box appeared on my system and the PC tools payment page would not load.
I finally used Google’s Chrome browser to locate Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware software. That product did a very good job of cleaning up my system after a full system sweep. I was so grateful that I paid $25 to install the full version of the software, though the free version did the rescue job for me.
