Thread: Internet Extortion?

I had this fairly recently and it was a malicious virus or some such called a rootkit.None of my freeware spyware and virus scanners could find it.My brother-in-law is my computer guy and he used malwarebytes to tell what it was but it wouldn't remove it.He planned to format my hard drive and when he tried to save some of my files on a thumb drive,it infected that too.He finally wiped the hard drive clean,and that got rid of it,but I lost a lot of good stuff.

Now I use a virus/spyware software called Vipre.Had to pay $50 for a year,but you get a home license which allows you to use it on all computers in your home(or relatives?).

Edit: I was using IE at the time----Now I use firefox.