nixy Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I have just had a very very nasty piece of spyware on my home PC called virus heat. Virus Heat is a new rogue anti-spyware program. Instead of clearing up spyware, it generates annoying popups and slows down your computer. You get an icon in the task tray at the bottom of your screen that looks just like an official windows icon which tells you your computer is infected - you click it and an advert pops up and you just can't get rid of it! It has been a nightmare to get rid of and has taken me hours. It slowed my computer down to almost unuseable. Because it's so new my anti-virus let it in. Eventually by surfing geek sites I found a free/donation based program called superantispyware that killed it but I was amazed at lots of other stuff it picked up as well. May be worth scanning your PC's with something just in case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanski Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Well spotted Nixy The troubel with a lot of big name virus checkers - its takes them ages to run tests etc in their labs then distribute to their download servers etc etc etc - the geek sites tend to spot this pretty sharpish ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 this one is a nasty little bugger - if you google it you can see zillions of people who have it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev-the-Rev Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Thanks for the heads up Nixy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunGodRA Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 more info: http://www.wiki-security.com/wiki/Parasite/VirusHeat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1SM0350z Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 i had one very similar to this on the other comp it slowed down so much i just stopped using it it was taking forever to do nething. lukily my brother is a bit of a computer nut and fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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