Just wanted to give a heads up to all GRMers, my IT guy notified me yesterday of a nasty virus that's making the rounds. This is a very convincing pop up that says a virus has been detected on your computer click here to fix it. We've all seen those before and I started to dismiss his warning with a "I would never click on that" but he insisted that this one looks very much like a windows security essentials window and several of his clients clicked on it. This particular virus relocated the files on your computer, so in addition of getting the virus off there you are also faced with the daunting task of locating all of those files, and they apparently go EVERYWHERE.
This morning I got the pop up and let me tell you it looked VERY CONVINCING. I almost clicked on it. I could hear the hard drive activity starting after the window popped up. If you get the pop up you should not even click on the red X to close it, you have to pull up the task manager and shut down from there. Clicking anything on the screen will initiate a download.
Luckily I had the heads up, I wanted to pay it forward. 
Happy surfing!
She and the computer are at gramma's this week, I guess I get to do battle with the damn thing again next weekend. My computer guru told me how to get rid of it through Safe mode using Malwarebytes and something else: the latest version masquerades as a Java update window and there have been instances of it showing up as an Adobe version as well. So be REAL careful.
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