Last night I was attacked by a virus. All I was doing was browsing the web on programming sites and stumbled across a site which must have been a hack site. I was running IE9 and before I could react, an ActiveX app ran and the computer went haywire. Background went black, all my desktop icons disappeared. The task bar changed and all these alerts popped up stating I had a corrupted hard drive and here is a program that will fix it. The thing that saved me as it was trying to run a program that needed Admin rights and I thought running c:/users/xxx/temp/UAC.EXE didn't seem right. Lucky I had Microsoft Security Essentials running which picked up that my computer was infected by Win32/FakeSysdef. From http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fFakeSysdef&threatid=2147639286 Win32/FakeSysdef is a family of programs that claim to scan for hardware defects related to system memory, hard drives and over-all system performance. ...
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