Home PC problem.

[the 12 th man]

I keep getting a virus removal company popping up and blocking sites ,telling me sites like foot.ie and other sites I know are ok are possible danger sites and offereing to "protect" me for $54,how can I get rid of it?

[dahamsta]

It's likely an exploit. Take a screenshot if you want a proper answer; in the meantime google "online virus scan", pick one of the first results, and run it.

[peadar1987]

I had a similar thing happen to me. A program called superantispyware seems to have sorted it out: http://www.superantispyware.com/

Spybot S&D is another decent free one : http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

You're probably safer downloading it onto a USB key on another machine, and then installing it from there. Some viruses do nasty things when you try and download antivirus software through a browser.

Good luck!

[tetsujin1979]

I'd recommend malware bytes as well - http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[Schumi]

I had something similar a couple of months ago. The instructions here (http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malware-Spyware-Cleaning-Guide-t2852.html) worked a treat.

[the 12 th man]

It's from a company called "Personal Security,it's blocking any downloads from any of the above remedy sites
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[dahamsta]

[/URL]This the fella? Loads of removal guides on [URL="http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=uninstall+%22%22Personal+Security%22&meta=&aq=f&aqi=g-c3&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai="]Google (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-personal-security)! :)

http://img.bleepingcomputer.com/swr-guides/p/personal-security/personal-security.jpg

[the 12 th man]

This the fella? Loads of removal guides on

That's the one alright,I'm still trying to get rid of it off my PC,trying the malware on safe mode now as it won't allow a download in normal mode,posting this on a laptop

[the 12 th man]

:victory:
Just for record purposes,if you get the personal security virus (as posted above by dahamsta) I used this http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
to get rid of it.

I downloaded the free version in safe mode and initially it seemed not to work as the personal security thing popped back up when i turned it back on after installing the malware but I switched user names on the PC for a few days and when I logged back in to the "compromised" user the virus had gone.Maybe there's some traces still left but nothing I can see for now.

Thanks to anybody who posted on the thread.