I hopped on the computer after a long day, flipped on the light switch, and plopped into my chair. The screen saver was on, so I moved the mouse. What did I see? My wallpaper was missing and replaced with a warning message and the image that you see pops up on my computer, saying that if I do not buy the fancy virus removal program they are offering, my computer will be in "grave danger." Of course, I am not stupid. A real protection program would not go so far as to hijack one's computer and replace their wallpaper with such a message. Thus, when the window pops up asking me to buy it, I click, "Cancel." Only, after I click it, I find out that nothing I press on the computer works except for the "Buy Now" button. Nothing worked except for Internet Explorer- not even FireFox. You know why? Because morons who have nothing better to do with their lives are not dumb. If they make it impossible to do anything on the computer, how will they get a hold of your credit card numbers, passwords, and other important information?
Huh. Perplexing. I went over to my sister's laptop, and looked it up. From there, I had to download two programs to get rid of the virus. Now, from here, I figured out that unless the program is named "explorer," it will not open. Thus, I renamed the said program as "explorer" and opened it up. The program got rid of the virus's ability to prevent me from doing anything. The second program actually got rid of the wretched thing. I did a "Quick Scan," which got rid of most of the stuff, and then a "Full Scan." Only, after I did the latter, I found out my computer was infested with a "DNSchanger" Trojan virus. Great. Only, this time, I can not get rid of it. What to do? Well, I could create a log and send it to one of those computer geek help sites, or I could wait for the computer to crash and get a new one...
I think I will go with the latter.
