Virus Warning

[andy-hughes]

If you start getting pop-ups on a light blue background from a company called Security Shield - adivisng you of all sorts of nasties on your hard-drive - you have picked up a seriously nasty virus.

My work PC (I work for BT) has got it - and if it can get through our firewalls and virus protection, it;s got to be good (or is that bad!).

Our tekkies advise that the only way to lose it is for my PC to be re-builkt from a wiped hard drive - so please be very careful when surfing.

[NazNomad]

Our tekkies advise that the only way to lose it is for my PC to be re-builkt from a wiped hard drive


Total botox

[Mick-Talbot]

lol, you can be very blunt Naz.

[NazNomad]

I'd have been blunter, was it not for the damn word-filter.

[jd_1984]

Can somebody explain to me the origin of a virus? And peoples excuses for creating them??
Are they created by some geeky teenager who is socially inept so creates viruses as a way of sayin f**k the world?

[NazNomad]

andy, tell them it's an easily-removed piece of spyware, see what they say.

[micmak]

Naz. Why are you a green cream cracker?

[NazNomad]

I'm on the Soylent Green diet.

[chelle7272]

hmmm soylent green?

[Davethedog]

Soylent Green - Delicious.

Credit Crunch - Soylent Green comeing to town near you soon.

[micmak]

Good film. Naz

[MarkRae]

No wonder BT's in such a state if this is the sort of "tekkies" [sic] they're employing..

[NazNomad]

I think it must have been a typo of 'trekkies'

[Old_Geezer]

That sounds like PC Support. No time / finance to fix anything; format and reinstall a standard build from scratch. The irony is you could achieve that for yourself.

[MarkRae]

Certainly sounds like they're more trekkies than techies...

[andy-hughes]

Gentlemen - I would not presume to tell our technicians how to do their job - I live in hope that it may be a simply removed piece of software - i will advise when they have been to see me.

[NazNomad]

Och, it's spyware, she canna take any moore Capt'n.

[NazNomad]

"I would not presume to tell our technicians how to do their job"

Seriously, presume your a$$ off this time, they're talking shít.

[cazzz1975]

cods, I had that virus, I performed a rollback and installed anti malware to get rid of any remanents. worked a treat tell ya mam

[MarkRae]

Just decouple the overhead underhang, pop the registers, cross the memory segment boundary and hook the bus...

[chelle7272]

Andy honestly, it is spyware and fairly easily removed - google it