win 7 home 2012 fake virus program

[trinc]

i was infected with the fake antivirus program win 7 home 2012, after using rkill & running malwarebytes it looks like my system is clean again... since i'm running malwarebytes PRO how did the process start in the first place ?

confused...

tim

[daledoc1]

Hello and welcome to MBAM, trinc:

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HTH a bit,

daledoc1

[noknojon]

Hi -

To add to the reply from

daledoc1

, can you please list the type and version of Antivirus program that you are using

Thank You -

[trinc]

Hi -

To add to the reply from

daledoc1

, can you please list the type and version of Antivirus program that you are using

Thank You -

AVG free version ( i was running avast paid version, for 1 year, but the scans seemed really slow ). this is on an older laptop that the kids use

so it's already slow. the fake antivirus had shut everything down ( malwarebytes / adaware / avg ) so i'm not sure if avg was even running

at the time of infection.

my question in a nut shell is: how did Malwarebyte clean my computer when asked ( run a scan )... but the real time protection not catch it at the point of infection ?

tim

[Darr]

... how did the process start in the first place ?

Almost-certainly, it was a (fake) Flash installer. Never agree to install a 'newer' version of Flash when prompted to by a website.

If you go to http://get.adobe.com.../otherversions/ for the latest Flash (I recommend UNchecking the google toolbar installer option), it also installs an updater that will notify you at bootup (with no browser open) if/when there is a newer version of Flash available.