Comments on: Vista Internet Security

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:56:12 +0000

I had this virus and managed to get rid of it with Adaware but now have a whole range of problems, e.g. my left and right keypad buttons have been reversed and I can’t open the mouse menu in control panel as it says the application does not exist. If I try to click on the internet explorer logo it asks me which program i want to open it with. I am rubbish with computers and have no idea what to do. I tried to go on system restore but again it won’t let me use that without asking me which program i want to use to open it. If I try to type in a word in a search engine it writes it in back to front. Help!

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:06:34 +0000

I had the exact problem described here, with Vista Security saying I had harmful viruses and needed to purchase their product to remove. After a while, it prevented all programs from running on my laptop. I have the latest version of McAfee, which failed to detect any of this. I downloaded the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware product on my desktop and renamed the executable to avoid potential problems with the virus. I put it on a thumb drive and ran it on my laptop as Administrator. It took a couple of hours to scan, detected 93 infected files (!), removed them, and everything works great like it did before the whole problem started.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:12:09 +0000

(Vist internet security 2011) It’s blocking me from getting access to the Internet to download the removable software what should I do

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:10:33 +0000

If you don’t have malwarebytes by now, you need to get it! Thankfully I had malwarebytes (got it after a previous fiasco) and was unable to run it normally due to this annoying vista internet security thing. So I restarted in safe mode with networking. Still popped up with vista security. Still unable to open a web browser (even firefox). still wouldn’t open MBAM normally. Checked for a solution on this page from another computer and saw the idea to right click on MBAM and click open as administrator and poof! Found the infection right away and got rid of it! Restarted normally and I am able to open avg, web browsers, and MBAM. Ran full scans with all and restarted again. Finished! What a headache though… Good luck!

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:32:50 +0000

ok i have had this pop up and i have used malware bytes software here is the way that i have removed it

i am running windows vista aswell

do everything as they say above but when you go to scan with malwarebytes restart your computer into safemode with networking
(restart and hit f8 while the load bar comes up for vista users)

when in safemode run the program as an administrator, when the program pops up click on the update tab and update and then do a full scan

the first time i did the scan it came up with two files and deleted them, thought i was ok the the next day the pop-ups started all over again, ran the program normally not in safe mode didnt come up with a single file

restarted in safe mode and the program picked up 7 files after updating and re scanning

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:50:38 +0000

Trying it now, hoping for the best!

By: JunoSpeaks

JunoSpeaks — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:34:26 +0000

Restarted in safe mode and ran anti=malware which removed six registry keys. Restarted again in regular mode and virus seems to be gone. Hooray. BTW, I use Firefox, was not on any porn sites and ran into this one 2 yrs ago. I actually bought the scam software for $100, BUT I got every cent back from Moscow. No kidding!

By: Johnno

Johnno — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:23:32 +0000

Good point nick above. I noticed on that fake scan webpage that a Java 6 logo popped up. Today I updated to Java 6 update 20 just to be safe.

By: Johnno

Johnno — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:20:14 +0000

I had an infection from this virus. I closed down av.exe, tried to surf for a solution and it just created more pop-ups because it infect all executable links.

Restarted, couldnt restart. Then Vista suggested a repair on the startup stuff. It failed then used system restore.

Restarted again and voila,,,,no probs. Seems like to go back a day or 2 using system restore will do wonders for you before doing a full system scan.

By: Nick UK

Nick UK — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:09:12 +0000

I know people have said similar stuff to this before, but I thought I’d share my experiences: I got auto-directed to some website in Polish and literally within seconds this fake-looking Security Centre popped up and the virus was was playing havoc with McAfee. McAfee kept telling me it had found it, that it had fixed it, but it kept popping back up. I couldn’t open *any* programmes, it kept asking me to suggest a programme from the list, which didn’t work. The other user accounts on the PC were unaffected (I wasn’t using the master account). I logged into another account and did a system restore back to two days prior, which freed up all my programmes. Then I did a full virus scan with McAfee which found just one infected file, that it then removed. I double-checked with Microsoft’s virus remover thingy and nothing showed up. The virus had hidden its self in the Java folders somewhere, so I installed the latest version of Java just to be safe but I’ve never once not accepted an auto update of Java so I don’t know why I was running an old variant of version 6. I’m annoyed that a) Chrome (which is supposed to be a safer browser than IE8) let it through and b) that McAfee let it through!! If I’d been using IE8 I suspect that I would have, as I have in previous instances, been blocked from being auto-directed to the virus-riddled website. Touch wood, it all seems fine. If you can, a system restore from another user account is worth a try.