Hello All,
I am having an issue with one of my family members work PC's, I think somehow they have managed to install a rogue anti-virus programme called personal antivirus.
This programme started spitting out annoying pop-ups from the task bar advising that there were various trojans and virus's on his computer and to press a button to either block them or another to ignore them, if one was to press either, an anti virus programme would start running and identifying various issues and then asks for one to purchase a license to fix the issue's, blatant scam I know!
I reckon I have managed to remove this programme by running various spyware apps but an issue still remains with internet explorer. If I launch IE, the first page i navigate to will display an error message just underneath the address bar advising somin along the lines of "malicious advertising code is in use on the site, click here to get personal antivirus to fix blah blah" once the page i am trying to navigate to is loaded, it remains for around a minute and then is re-directed to another page advising that the page is blocked and gives two tabs to either "continue unprotected" or "get security software".
Pressing any of the above mentioned tabs does nothing, I know its not the Mcafee Site advisor as that spits out a different page and advises you even before you get to the page you wanna view. This computer is installed with the latest LEGIT Mcafee antivirus suite, so I was quite surprised that it did not pick it up and remove the threat.
Any advise on how I could get rid of this virus/programme and make the IE function correctly again without having to wipe the whole computer would be great, byt the way Firefox works fine!
Thanks in advance for your time and help.
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I am having an issue with one of my family members work PC's, I think somehow they have managed to install a rogue anti-virus programme called personal antivirus.
This programme started spitting out annoying pop-ups from the task bar advising that there were various trojans and virus's on his computer and to press a button to either block them or another to ignore them, if one was to press either, an anti virus programme would start running and identifying various issues and then asks for one to purchase a license to fix the issue's, blatant scam I know!
I reckon I have managed to remove this programme by running various spyware apps but an issue still remains with internet explorer. If I launch IE, the first page i navigate to will display an error message just underneath the address bar advising somin along the lines of "malicious advertising code is in use on the site, click here to get personal antivirus to fix blah blah" once the page i am trying to navigate to is loaded, it remains for around a minute and then is re-directed to another page advising that the page is blocked and gives two tabs to either "continue unprotected" or "get security software".
Pressing any of the above mentioned tabs does nothing, I know its not the Mcafee Site advisor as that spits out a different page and advises you even before you get to the page you wanna view. This computer is installed with the latest LEGIT Mcafee antivirus suite, so I was quite surprised that it did not pick it up and remove the threat.
Any advise on how I could get rid of this virus/programme and make the IE function correctly again without having to wipe the whole computer would be great, byt the way Firefox works fine!
Thanks in advance for your time and help.
Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!
This web site probably contains malicious software program, which can cause damage to your computer or perform actions without your permission. Your computer may be infected after visiting such web site.
We recommend you to install (or activate) antivirus security software.
I do realize that visiting this site can cause harm to my computer.
