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SomeOldGuy · 07-26-2011, 12:19 PM

First, temporarily disable system restore.
If you need it, instructions are here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405

I've had some success before by renaming the Malwarebytes mbam.exe to something else, then just running the renamed mbam.exe in safe mode.

For running superantispyware, here is the various howto options:
http://www.superantispyware.com/supp...ay.html?faq=71

Then I'd do as rodox said and after the renamed Malwarebytes run do Superantispyware followed by combofix to do a more thorough cleaning.

Google for the particular fake a/v that was downloaded to see if there are specific instructions on how to get rid of it.

Once clean, then re-enable system restore.

But I have to say that in the long run regardless of what you do you may have to do a clean install of Windows to get rid of it.

07-26-2011, 12:19 PM	#5
SomeOldGuy older than dirt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just east of the jug handle Posts Rated Helpful 9 Times	First, temporarily disable system restore. If you need it, instructions are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405 I've had some success before by renaming the Malwarebytes mbam.exe to something else, then just running the renamed mbam.exe in safe mode. For running superantispyware, here is the various howto options: http://www.superantispyware.com/supp...ay.html?faq=71 Then I'd do as rodox said and after the renamed Malwarebytes run do Superantispyware followed by combofix to do a more thorough cleaning. Google for the particular fake a/v that was downloaded to see if there are specific instructions on how to get rid of it. Once clean, then re-enable system restore. But I have to say that in the long run regardless of what you do you may have to do a clean install of Windows to get rid of it.