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I don't know about this specific one but a lot of these kind of things are not really viruses in the traditional sense, just scams. The put up a scary message and lock the computer up trying to get you to call "support" for (paid) assistance. They usually don't do anything else. It's like the morons who call you at random claiming to be "Windows Technical Support." (I keep a honeypot virtual machine around for those guys so I can see what they do. It's just all smoke and mirrors, no actual damage, then they offer you "protection" at an inflated price.)
Usually just powering down and restarting will clear this type of bogus message since most are just running from the web browser. I did see one recently where it left a persistent message that would still pop up when the affected user logged back on. Logging in as an admin and running Malwarebytes removed the autostarting popup program.
Facebook is toxic and should not be used. Not only will I not register an account there, I won't go anywhere near the site for any purpose even though I have friends and family that have sequestered themselves there and will hardly ever respond to any other kind of communication.
Posts in this Thread:
- OT: Zeus Computer Virus, MI-Roger
, Sat, 15 Apr 2017 05:42:37- I just got Zeused, DE
, Wed, 3 May 2017 12:32:54 - Re: OT: Zeus Computer Virus, JerseySaab
, Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:09:45 <-- Viewing This Message- Totally agree about facebook (nm), don m
, Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:49:45 - Re: OT: Zeus Computer Virus,, Tom G
, Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:26:16 - Similar thing happened, Dennis_MA, Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:36:13
- Re: OT: Zeus Computer Virus, Dean, Sat, 15 Apr 2017 08:38:45
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