Thread: Internet Extortion?

There are several solutions to this, and I'll list them in no particular order.

1. Find somebody who has dealt with the exact same bug, and follow their solution.

2. Keep throwing various anti-spyware and anti-adware applications at it until one of them get's it.

3. Switch from IE to Firefox and hope that it's IE specific.

4. Carefully comb through running processes and see if you can figure out which one is responsible, then spend countless hours filtering through the windows registry and your hard drive to get rid of it manually with a HIGH risk of bricking your desktop.

5. Format your hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. This is equivalent to fixing a car that burns oil by having it torn down to the floor pan and rebuilt. A total over-kill waste of time, but 99.999% effected

Any of those options will 'eventually' solve the current problem, but only until you get another virus/worm/spyware/malware. There's only one permanent fix, which is.......

6. Install linux. Yeah, it can be a pain to learn, and you'll have to find different programs to do the same stuff, and only 70% of new video games will run, but you'll never have these problems again.