[clue-talk] Windows uggh!

[Will]

Both Malware Bytes and Windows Defender can remove this virus.

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-system-security.html

<http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-system-security.html>

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Clearing the registry setting typically (but not always) disables a virus.
>  Make
> note of the path to the executable and remove the actual file.  Some
> viruses
> ship with a bootstrapper that will check to see if the virus is running and
> reinstall it if it's not.  That should get your computer in a state to run
> a
> virus scanner, since many viruses prevent you from doing that.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: bidwell <bidwell at dead-city.org>
> To: CLUE talk <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Sat, January 1, 2011 1:17:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Windows uggh!
>
> On 01/01/2011 10:12 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest how I might fix this problem?
> >
> > My wife's XP computer has become infected with some sort of a virus
> > that manifests itself as a name System Security. When the system
> > boots, after the desktop appears it opens a box inviting registration
> > of a product, starts a scan, purports to find a vrus, and hangs the
> > computer.
> >
> > My windows virus killing skills are less than minimal.
> >
>
> Same thing happened to me a week ago when booting up the
> windows partition for my wife.  I believe I went
> into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
> in the registry and found what I needed to delete.
>
> Matt
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