Here is the EMAIL you would get. 

The RED boxes change and are different for each person that receives the mail.  It also comes with a link to the fake IRS to go and enter in private information.  (I have not included the link because I do not want anyone clicking on it!)

Here is the Entire story of its background covered by Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/unreported.asp

It is a "rogue" Fake program.  It gives the appearance of being an Anti-virus program and even performs Fake scans to make you believe it is doing something. It even will make a Fake list of things it found that are not really even on your computer!

Many computers were infected with its predecessor

Antivirus Pro 2009.

These are the same people and they have returned with something new.

It takes over your PC, you can NOT get on the internet, and.....wait for it.......

they found a away to make their files invisible to all the removal programs that you can use to get rid of it.

They leave you with seemingly only ONE choice.  BUY their product with a credit card number and you get removal instructions with your purchase.  Well guess what.......It's a lie too!

The money is taken from you and you are left with a useless computer.

Well...James Clancy.com is here to help. 

I will go over the MANUAL way to both remove this evil malicious spyware, as well as show you how to make the program be visible again to anti-malware removal programs. ALL FREE.   Can't beat that? Can you?

Computer Attack ***ALERT*** Part 2 of 2

What about SAFE MODE? 
Answer---nope....not without some instruction.  You may get 30-60 seconds of internet time in Safe Mode before your computer is stopped and the program starts running.

So...what do you do?

1st...you do need to boot into safe mode with networking.
Open internet explorer..and you will get an error....because the program will not allow you on the internet.

STEP 1
Go to TOOLS
Internet Options
Click the CONNECTIONS tab
LAN Settings button
and UNCHECK ALL BOXES!
Nothing in that windows should be marked.
Say ok and close out of the Browser.

STEP 2
NEXT for XP users, click START-RUN and type Regedit.msc
For VISTA users, click the start button, type "CMD" and in the DOS box, type Regedit.

Find and delete the following Registry keys if they are present
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random charaters]"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random characters]"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:5555"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = ".exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download "RunInvalidSignatures" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvSoft

STEP 3
Reboot into SAFE MODE again, open the browser and you should have internet now.
Now download and run MALWAREBYTES.
If you need it, I have it on my Downloads site.

http://www.jamesclancy.com/Downloads.html
Update it as well before using.

STEP 4
Do the FULL SCAN. It maye take an hour, but it will now find all the problem files.
Click REMOVE and reboot to normal use.
It will be slow the first time as you really have given your PC a workout.

ALTERNATE IDEA
If you don't want to mess with getting into the registry or blowing off 2 hours of your time.
JamesClancy.com will do this for you for $50.   You will also get a free internal cleaning of your PC with before and after photos.

A  DVD Burning and IDE / SATA Cables 6 part  demo.

You should click your way through from Part 1 to 6.  I added as many pictures as possible which should make it easier and quicker to get through.  

Start here with Part 1

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have VISTA, you want the check box that mentions DMA to be checked. If you have IDE, UNcheck this box.

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have Windows XP, you want the settings to appear as they are below. If you have IDE, then use the pull down menu to choose an option that lists "PIO."

Click OK and that that brings us to the end.  "PIO" is for IDE Ribbon Cables and "DMA" is for SATA cables.  These things are data transfer modes and tell the computer how fast or slow to transfer Data in and out of some device (remember "IO"?)  

So now you have all the acronyms and technical information. If you want to know exactly was DMA and PIO are for educational reasons, then open up Google and surf the internet to all the definitions out there!

Good luck and have fun!

You should see a tab for Advanced Settings. Left Click that tab.

The last part is totally different depending if you have VISTA or XP.

In Part 6 I will showed both.

Go on to Part 6

Click on the plus "+" sign next to it to expand the list.

In XP you will see items called PRIMARY and SECONDARY.
It's the same thing as what I have circled.

Go to Part 5

LEFT CLICK on Properties.

Then in in VISTA you will see the below image.....Click on Device manager. 

In XP...there will be a Tab that says HARDWARE and then a Button that says DEVICE MANAGER.

Go to Part 4

The Ribbon cable, or the “IDE” cable reads in data at a slower speed than its new counterpart, the SATA cable. There are also 2 type of references used discussing these 2 types of cabled connections.   Some people may see error or informational messages that display the acronym “IO.”   

IO stands for “Input-Output.”  Simply put, IO is short for generally referring to something putting in, or taking out , data.   There is a  CD drive, and DVD drive, and diskette drive, a thumb drive, even a Hard Drive.

The speeds of these devices can change if they are not set properly.  The speed of a SATA cable is faster than the speed of a Ribbon IDE cable.  So if you have a SATA dvd player…and the setting for its speed is set to IDE….then it will not read as fast. 

Part 3 will show you how to look for and change this setting.

Go on to Part 3

These days there are 2 ways that computer parts wire up inside your computer. 1 way is called IDE, and the other way is called SATA. Take a look at this photo. The cable on the left is a ribbon cable. That is the type called IDE. The one on the right is smaller and color coated, it is called SATA.

Go on to Part 2

Even after you load the free SP3, I am here to inform you that when you go to the Microsoft Update website to see if there are any remaining updates or free-be's.....you will be surprised to learn there are about 63 of them that total 215 MB.

The update to SP3 will also recognize if you do, or don't, have the new Internet Explorer 8. So after the 215 MB download and install, you will get a Window to prompt you to update your browser to the new version as well.

So if you have Windows XPSP2 or prior, schedule out a couple hours to get all your updates! And the slower internet you , the longer it will take. I was on a cable modem and it took 1 hour to do it all and have the PC back up and running all new again.

What are the Speeds?

T1 is a fully digital signal giving the same speed up and down and called a 'symmetrical signal' because of that feature.
Cable and other broadband is 'asymmetrical' because most regular people do more downloading(surfing) than uploading(running applications).

You can go to http://www.speedtest.net/ to test your speed and see what speed your internet is running at.

If you are at home and listening to streaming radio at 300 Kbps...AND...you have DSL or Cable internet, you should not have too much of a problem unless you have spyware or other applications using the internet at the same time as your Radio Station listening time is happening.

But if you are on a network in an office...where the office only has 1 internet connecion for everyone to use, and 2 people are listening or streaming music, or 3 or 4 or 100....you can see that the internet will slow down for all other employees.  Because when people surf the internet to do anythng, they need bandwidth to get there. As we learned from Part 1 of 2, the chart showed that 300 Kbps = 132 MB per hour..and that is constant...or.."Streaming."

Surfing the internet is when you go to a webite and that is the end of it, then you go to your next one..or you get your email and that is all.  Bandwidth is not constantly taken up and in use every second. 

IN CONCLUSION
Internet radio is a wonderful thing.  As the speed of the internet increased, things like this became possible. This was not possible on the old Dial-up at 56Kbps, because Internet radio needs 300Kbps just to function. It is great for home and personal use, but if you are on any sort of network, I would check with your technical people and ask if its ok.  They will know  what speed they are paying for in that monthly fee.  If the office has paid for a top end speed, you are probably ok.  But if they have basic DSL, I would imagine the internet in the whole office would slow down because 1 or 2 people are listening to streaming radio somewhere.

First, some defintions.
STREAMING - this is NOT YouTube, Google Video, or any other type of video site that had Audio or video already PRE-recorded and then uploaded to some website.  When something was already recorded and then uploaded to watch again and again by whoever wants to log on and see it....this is NOT 'streaming'.  I am NOT talking about this type of website in this blog entry today.

 BANDWIDTH - This is the method and terminolgy to measure the speed of your internet. A car's method is MPH (Miles Per Hour), ships on the ocean use Knts (Knots, or Nautical Miles per Hour), the internet uses Bandwith.(Kbps, Mbps).

Bandwith speeds are provided in "Per Second" increments.  So if a bandwidth is 1024 bits per second, that is equal to 1 Kilobyte per second(or 1 KB/ps....since....1024 of any measurement is equal to the next higher level of measurement.

THE MEASUREMENTS 
bit (the size of 1 letter of the alphabet),
Byte(8-bits),
Kilobyte (1024 bytes),
Megabyte(1024 Kilobytes)
Gigabyte(1024 Megabytes). 
There are more but this is as far as you need to know for the purposes of streaming radio.

Your internet music website usually states their Bandwidth in Kilobits per second, or Kbps.
Divide the stream kbps rate by 8 and you will get the kilobytes/second it uses..
Multiply by 60 to get Kilobytes per minute
Multiply by 60 again to get Kilobytes per hour
Divide by 1024 to get equivalent Megabytes per hour

SO.....

So let's take our new-found knowledge of speeds and apply it to the speed of YOUR internet and how listening to live music is better in some places than others. This is where my next blog will begin for you in Part 2 of 2.