Restore internet connection and system tray icon after spyware/virus removal
While I was surfing internet, I don’t know where I clicked and it opened up a website which in turn opened a popup window. Within a matter of few seconds, my FireFox browser froze and in the system tray icon, it showed me little nice blue icon with a pop up saying “Your computer is infected with virus. Click here to fix it.”. (Who says Firefox 3.5 is a secure browser?). I killed the Firefox process from Task Manager but I was running as admin of the computer so it created much problem for me as it might have injected lot of spyware/virus. Even Norton Anti-virus could not detect anything while it was running. I immediately disconnected computer from internet so that it won’t affect any other machine and/or send any information from my computer to outside world. Read more…