Virus Horror Story

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

The virus that could help a hacker succeed online by taking advantage of you – my true story -
Do you know there’s a brand new computer virus that can get into your computer
without you knowing even if you have AntiVirus and AntiSpyware installed? And
when you try to get rid of it, it totally wrecks your system?

I didn’t know until a few days ago. On Thursday, the 25th of November (Thanksgiving),
my computer was infected by a virus that literally took control of my web browser
and wrecked my machine when I tried to get rid of it.

Let me tell you what happened…

After we were all done with our Thanksgiving dinner, I went online to do some quick
research for my next article. But instead, I stayed up all night battling a virus from
hell!

Shortly after I got online, my Norton Antivirus and my adware/spyware removal
software Spyware Doctor, started going wild with notifications of a virus presence
in my computer.

I immediately stopped doing what I was doing and got Spyware Doctor to scan my
hard drive. Before long, it gave me a report of about 196 infected files with Trojan
and some other types of adware/spyware virus residing on my hard drive!

I was shocked when I saw that. Just the day before the computer was fine!

So then, I spent hours going through the whole procedure of removing the
virus from my hard drive … and soon it was clean. Or so I thought…

Here’s what the virus was doing:

Read on…..