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Originally Posted by taustin
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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I never even thought of System Restore. Don't know if I could have gotten to it.
I had the same sort of problem a few years back--the fake antivirus was calling itself by a different name though--and eventually I was able to use Malwarebytes to get rid of it. So this time I immediately went to Malwarebytes.