DeathInSpace Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share Posted March 22, 2013 If you restart your computer it locks you in... It will give you a couple seconds before the popup comes up. You MUST remove your computer from the Internet because the hackers now have access to your PC. If you can catch it try and run a virus scan and get rid of it... From what I've been reading from people that work on PCs for a living... Most of the time it needs a reformat... Hopefully not though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathInSpace Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share Posted March 22, 2013 Also, when I could get rid of it (I hit power button then escape to cancel shutdown) and ran AVG, it did not catch the virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack012jackjack Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 You can back up your saves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki990 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) what will happen if i shutdown my cpu and start it again, will the fake fbi show up? I just hope it wont! Cuz right now im using my avg to scan my whole cpu and remove that trojan Depends on the virus... Some of them are easy to remove some are very hard, to the point where you will need to do a system restore, which means that everything on your PC will have to go. Its like getting a new PC, nothing is on it but the windows operating system...  Most of the time, viruses are made to spread, that means if you have a virus it will go to other areas of your PC and infect files. Some if not all are made to collect personal information like your passwords, emails, anything really, even your credit cards. Shutting down your PC will not help, in some cases it might never load to the desktop, in all cases the virus will always be there.  I'm not sure why you are so worried about your game saves, I would be worried about my personal information... Doing a system restore is the best way to remove a virus, sometimes even that might not help because some virus can stay on the hard drive even after reformatting it.  I'm not sure if you understand what "CPU" stands for, but thats not what your scaning... CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, its also not the part that gets infected by a virus. The part that gets infected by a virus is your hard drive "HDD". Edited March 22, 2013 by Miki990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) Also, don't use AVG. It's awful. Comodo Firewall + Avira Antivirus | Those two (free!) software products will provide the best protection for your computer. You also can't get "virus'd" by a trojan. A trojan is a program/file that, when accessed, does some bad stuff (malware). As long as you don't do anything with it (Let Avira take care of it), you should be fine. Edited March 22, 2013 by FiftyTifty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki990 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 (edited) Also, don't use AVG. It's awful. Comodo Firewall + Avira Antivirus | Those two (free!) software products will provide the best protection for your computer.  I use Microsoft Security Essentials, along with Zone Alarm. Then again, most of them do what they need to, there is never a 100% safe way. Just be careful what you download.  Not sure how grate this post is, but it has some nice comparisons of free antivirus tools. http://dottech.org/14151/windows-best-free-antivirus-antimalware-program-microsoft-security-essentials-vs-avira-vs-avast-vs-avg/ Edited March 22, 2013 by Miki990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted472477User Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 it tried to come through on mine. 'Tried' being the operative word. I saw it pop up, went "That's not a normal Nexus file, that doesn't look right" and was about to cancel when Malwarebytes popped up saying it had caught a virus. So I did a quick scan and things were fine, thank God. I can't recommend Malwarebytes enough. Before I got it, on the laptop I had two years ago I got two instances of ransomware in three months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaradin Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 That's pretty scary! But all the advice thus far sounds good. Thanks for the info thus far, I'll be cautious of any downloads for the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyZ0G Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 another free tool that is very good against malware is Super Anti Spywarethis gets rid of most if not all of the really nasty malware :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasumi446 Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 already removed the viruses and the ransomware, at least i have backup my files to my hardrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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