A cautionary tale

[lantern53]

I went looking for missions for P3D and found the below:

when I d/l and clicked the executable, it loaded no missions but did load a malware virus on my computer which took about 2 days to clear up. It caused IE to open endless windows on my machine. It is really not so much to hurt your computer, it is used to sell you things...so be aware!




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[lantern53]

update...my computer is still throwing up IE windows!

i'm screwed

[Jetranger]

Lantern, try and see if this tool helps,, at all,,, see the links, it removed a bunch of crap off my computer,,,, that allowed junk ,,,,

try it see if it helps

read the post for the link : Bleeping computer,, click on that and download it,,,, see if it'll get rid of that pesky adware junkware on your puter

http://forums.simviation.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=171720

[Hagar]

Malwarebytes has always worked for me. https://www.malwarebytes.org/

[garymbuska]

I found this site and it removed something that Malwarebytes did not
http://www.adware-cleaner.net/home.html
I have made it a point now to run Malware Bytes and adware cleaner on a monthly basis now.
I had the same thing happen to me some time ago I was looking for a antivirus software and went to one site that after going there and even though I downloaded nothing. The next time I powered up my system I must have had 100 windows pop up. I went to a site called CYBERTECHHELP http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/index.php
They helped me remove the virus. This is a great site but because it works by email it will take you a while t0 get rid of it.
This is 100% free
They have saved my bacon on more than one occasion

[davido53]

I did get my problem fixed but I had run about every freeware virus program that I could find, and even then I kept having IE window come up every 10 minutes. Finally I was able to disable IE in Windows.

What a royal PITA though.

[Azframer]

I had downloaded something a while back and it changed things in Mozilla and no amount of spyware malware stuff would touch it. It changed my home page and my search to some lame *** search engine, when I click on links it would open another page, always some warning of spyware or needing to update my flash player BS finally found I had to reset my browser back to default and it was gone.
But my wife's profile still contained it and I had to reset hers last night, and now she is back to normal, she does not use the computer as much as I do. But it almost drove her crazy last night when I figured what was going on.

Rick