anyone know y this happened?

2 thoughts on “anyone know y this happened?”

1. Charlie Sheen says:

   December 31, 2010 at 3:52 am

   I just copied the address into my browser and AVG blocked the page as a major threat. Delete this and warn others.

2. Chris G says:

   December 31, 2010 at 3:52 am

   This is a virus, so hopefully you haven’t clicked on it, and hopefully you are using a standard user account rather than one with administrator privileges.

   You need to download, install, update and do a full scan with Malwarebytes, and let it remove whatever it finds.  You’ll most likely need to do this in Safe Mode, and you may need to download it on another computer if your internet access is compromised.  There are excellent tutorials on this at Bleeping Computers:

   http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/how-to-use-malwarebytes-anti-malware-tutorial

   Once it’s cleaned up, install a good hosts file to help block unwanted popups, parasites, adware and spyware.  You can read about, and download and install an excellent one from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm   This hosts file blocks hundreds of known malicious URLs.  I’ve been using one from this website for several years now and rarely get popups and annoying ads.  Revisit the page every couple of months as it is updated from time to time with new sites.

   Also, never use an administrator account for day-to-day use.  Always use a Standard account.  This will limit the amount of damage these things can do.
    

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