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Jan. 4th, 2009 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2So on January 1st I reformatted my hard drive to get rid of the virtumonde virus. I backed up essential files -- my documents, mail, my favorites (although I accidentally only backed up the IE favorites rather than Firefox), and a handful of programs that either don't require installation to work or are difficult to reinstall otherwise. Specifically SAM3, which is a paid for DJ program that requires time to set up and register and has a lot of playlists and such in it that would have been a pain to recreate.
Anyway, after installing everything... the damned virus popups are back. I don't know where it was hiding but I know I didn't just accidentally download it again. I think I clicked on the first one I saw too... it disguises itself as an anti-spyware alert with the little AVG logo on it, and it referred to a SAM3 uninstall program as being infected, which sounded reasonable to me at the time.
I'm really in a bad mood right now. I have no idea how to get rid of this thing short of abandoning all of my old files, which I can't do.
Anyway, after installing everything... the damned virus popups are back. I don't know where it was hiding but I know I didn't just accidentally download it again. I think I clicked on the first one I saw too... it disguises itself as an anti-spyware alert with the little AVG logo on it, and it referred to a SAM3 uninstall program as being infected, which sounded reasonable to me at the time.
I'm really in a bad mood right now. I have no idea how to get rid of this thing short of abandoning all of my old files, which I can't do.
