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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Have I raised your awareness enough to get you to take steps to prevent your Windows machine from getting this? Please do this -- this is a very, very serious challenge.
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I've seen two versions of this. The first was fairly easy to remove (install Malwarebytes and manual updates from a flash drive, reboot into Safe Mode and run a clean.) The second was a bit harder, as it would automatically delete the Malwarebytes application file when you tried to execute it. (Solution was to install Malwarebytes, rename the executable to something else before running it, then running a clean.)
It seems that they're continually updating it to make it harder to remove. Best advice is not to get it at all, and that's by running an alternative browser such as Firefox, and updating not only Windows, but the Flash Player, Shockwave, Java, Adobe Reader and Firefox.
Better yet, get away from Windows if at all possible.