Holy cow, just recovered from the Windows AntiVirus Pro virus!

[SLS]

Spent Saturday, Sunday and most of today dealing with this virus. This is a nasty bug that plants itself deep in the operating system of your PC If you are on the phone and working on your PC like I am, the prompts it gives to launch the virus are close enough to look like a normal Microsoft error message. Once launched, it then proceeds to give you fake virus detection/infection notices with the whole point to get you to sign up for a years subscription for virus protection! This part is just a scam to get your credit card info, which they happily take and still leave you with a nasty mess! Fortunately, after about 1 minute, I knew what I had and did not fall for it, but I am sure others have. Not sure where I picked this one up from, but it nearly disabled my entire operating system. Every time you try to destroy it, it blocks it and does not let you use that function again. It even won't let you start up in safe mode! I had two different techs have a look at it, the second one was finally able to give it the kibosh! So for the past 5 hours tonight I have bumping up security on all my PC's. The one positive is I learned about some great freeware from the second Tech to help detect & destroy malware. Do a search for malwarebytes.org, it works great. It's to be back to normal again!
Scott