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Can someone tell how dangerous is this fake online scanner?

I told MSE to clean the computer and closed Chrome to not download that fake antivirus. COMODO Firewall did not detect any connections. I´m gonna run a scan with Malwarebyte´s and Spybot S&S. Should I be afraid?:rolleyes:
 
It's one of the many rogue antivirus/fake alert/scareware variants out there, designed to make you think your system is infected, and get you to give them your credit card number to purchase their fake program to clean you system...and off goes your credit card into to the Russian black market.

Follow the stickied guide at the top of this forum. A good antivirus program, combined with MalwareBytes and maybe another scanner or two usually cleans them up quite easily.
 
ya this one takes over IE quite a bit, it's often built into some ads on what are usually "Safe" websites.
 
It looks like MSE remove it successfully.



Malwarebyte´s did not found any infected files. I also have scanned the system with Spybot S&S and SuperAntiSpyware and they found nothing but cookies that were removed successfully. Should I remove my Windows 7 partition? I have Vista installed on other partition and it´s my main OS.
The CPU and memory usage looks normal. HiJackThis log looks clean. Any suggestions?
 
Looks like you're pretty good then. Maybe over the next few days just update MalwareBytes, SAS, etc....and run another couple of scans just to feel more assured.

Yeah, MSE is turning out to be a great product.
 
I have seen this about 4 times in the past 6 months, none of my scanners have picked up on it (Anti-Vir and Kasperski)
 
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