There is a rogue virus/malware posing as an antivirus program called Antivirus Studio 2010. I got this nasty bug last night.
While doing some research I clicked on an image from Google search results and a virus warning box popped up. It looked like my av program so I clicked on ‘clean infection’. Next thing I know I’m stuck in popup windows wanting me to download a program to clean my pc.
I couldn’t get out of it normally. I had to use Task Manager and stop all suspicious looking tasks. I then opened Control Panel and found this Antivirus Studio 2010 in my list of programs so I clicked uninstall. A box popped up saying I needed to get an uninstall code.
I clicked on it (shouldn’t have) and the process started all over. I used Task Manager again to stop suspicious looking processes and then ran a virus scan . It found some infections and cleaned them.
Not satisfied I ran Malwarebytes…it found several more infections and cleaned them. I checked Control Panel and it was no longer listed as an installed program.
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