antimalwarescanner . com

[mountaintree16]

In late March I believe it was, or it may have been early February, I got redirected to antimalwarescanner . com when I was going to the homepage of myspace.

I quickly closed out of it (if I remember correctly, via the red "x" on the browser. I was using Internet Explorer at the time, but since then I have used nothing but Firefox.

A fake-scan thing that looked like it was on "my computer" started "Scanning" before I closed out of it. I am pretty sure it wasn't actually in the my computer area though.

At the time, I only had AVG Free on the computer.

Then I purchased the full internet security suite from AVG. A month later, the same thing happened, this time when I was using Firefox. I posted on a messageboard that I frequent and someone suggested that I download ATF cleaner from Atribune.org and Malwarebytes. I downloaded and ran both, and all Malwarebytes found was Adware.MyWebSearch, which I removed.

This incidence has not happened since, but I still wonder from time to time if there is still something on my computer.

I was doing some searches on it again tonight and found that supposedly usually when you get redirected to the site you already have a trojan on your computer :/, but its not a given that you do. The website (antimalwarescanner), I found out, is an advertising tool for the AntiVirus 2009 malware, which my computer never got, thankfully. At least not as far as I am aware.

Update: Malwarebytes found something called Heuristics.Malware a few nights ago, which I removed.

Has anyone heard of antimalwarescanner, know anything about it, or have any idea how to get rid of it? Anything else?

Thank you so much to anyone that replies!

[YoKenny1]

Its rated bad on Web of Trust (WoT):

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/antimalwarescanner.com

Free Internet Security

WOT warns you about risky websites

http://www.mywot.com

[Maniac]

Greetings.

To get you fixed up please follow the instructions here: I'm infected - What do I do now?

And post your logs in a new topic here: Malware Removal - HijackThis Logs

Please be sure not to install any software or use any removal/scanning tools exept those that you are

instructed to by the expert who will be assisting you as doing so can make their job much more difficult.

note: if for some reason you are unable to run some/any of the tools in the first link, then skip that step and move on to the next one. If you can't even run HijackThis, then just post here: Malware Removal - HijackThis Logs describing your issues and an expert will reply with further instructions.

I hope I was helpful. Good luck and safe surfing.

[mountaintree16]

Maniac,

Thank you so much! You guys are great, I appreciate everyone's help so much.

[mountaintree16]

Thank you That looks like a good site! I'd never heard of it until today though. I'll keep it in mind!