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Security Shield Rogueware

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Yeah I've had to remove similar things a couple times from my wife's computer, and one of our friend's computer... Not fun... It'll take you hours to run all the scans/get it to stop preventing you from getting rid of it...

Pretty much, they are rootkits... You'll have to run a tool to stop and prevent rootkits from running, then run MalwareBytes and other scans, then run ComboFix, etc...

You'll be lucky if you get it all the first time...

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This happened to me last night following some dumb ass conservative site posting an asshole I know put up on Facebook.

You never, ever click on such a thing. What I found (and it's only been a day so we will see if I'm right) is that an executable runs on your computer with a really odd name you can see in Task Manager - this is the installer program that looks like a web popup with the "X" and all - when I ended that task, no more popups. So for now it depends on you NOT FREAKING OUT and clicking on something promising to "fix" your problem when actually its going to install the bad stuff, with your permission, all over your computer. Again, I have not field tested this, just passing on my experience from last night -

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I think I got it (along with 3 trojans). Ran my computer in safe mode. 2 hours and a full scan later, 3 trojans are found. Then I run my computer regularly, and it pops up for about 5 minutes, then my virus program finds it. Looked at my history on it, said it was a rogue. Been about 5 minutes and haven't seen anything else from it. Thanks for the advice guys. Hope this poo doesn't happen again.

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the biggest obstacle in cases like this is that it often hijacks the .exe function... meaning it attaches itself and runs in unison anytime you launch a program... It also usually recognizes scanning programs and prevents them from running... even in safe mode...

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the biggest obstacle in cases like this is that it often hijacks the .exe function... meaning it attaches itself and runs in unison anytime you launch a program... It also usually recognizes scanning programs and prevents them from running... even in safe mode...

Yeah. Everything is running fine now. I don't think I totally have it, as my real-time protection software keeps finding things and I'm having to clear it, but at least I can open my C-Cleaner and malware bytes and run those, along with my task manager.

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I wasn't looking at anything but the huddle and facebook. It popped up and said it found 6 issues. I closed it, it waited 3 minutes, and popped up again as a different window interface.

I have malwarebytes. Unfortunately, this virus claims it is affected by a Trojan (ran Microsoft Security Essentials check on it, says it is clear) and won't let me open it.

I had that happen, I had to take my computer to Office Depot to get rid of it! McAfee didn't even recognize it either.

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