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Old 04-03-2013, 11:35 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I got one of these just yesterday, just by going to a page from a Google link. The popup was from AVASoft Pro
Or so it claimed.

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--extremely annoying, because it blocks any executable file. I hadn't clicked on the popup at all--I had tried to close the browser, though. I got rid of it by downloading Malwarebytes on another computer and running it on the infected computer from a flash drive.
In many cases, you can boot to safe mode, or even to a different user account, to get in to System Restore. Though one that blocks exes is rather more serious than most drive-bys. It certainly doesn't hurt to have some kind of live CD or bootable flash drive with AV software on it, though. I do recall one, though, that by the time the AV software got rid of it, it has borked the network stack, and nothing short of a full formate and reinstall would fix it.
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