How to Remove Internet Security 2010 Virus

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Attack of the killer Internet Security 2010 virus or hostage ware.

I pride myself on my stellar record for avoiding virus’s and spyware on my Windows Vista Sony Vaio laptop, so I was slightly amused yet pissed to see the annoying popup in my system tray saying my system is unsafe and I need to purchase and install Internet Security 2010. It’s a clever little virus that almost made me believe it was a Microsoft Security alert. Until I saw that it was asking me to pony up some money to buy the INTERNET SECURITY 2010 program. I thought that sounded fishy, so I googled Internet Security 2010 and was inundated with pages mentioning this was a virus. So what ever you do, do not buy this program! If you already have, be sure to call you credit card company immediately!

So after a quick sigh, I attempted to run my AVG free software. To my dismay the Internet Security 2010 virus blocked it, and Microsoft Security from running so that I could quarantine the little bastard. Now I began to think that this little nuisance virus was more formidable than I originally thought. So another quick google for “How to Remove Internet Security 2010 Virus” and I saw that indeed this would be more of a challenge than I first reckoned!

Now I had to sort through the search results, avoiding the ones that were clearly spam. After much reading I happened on a website that had a somewhat strange url, but the info regarding how to remove the Internet Security 2010 virus seemed legit: www.bleepingcomputer.com. I was a little hesitant to use this sites methods as it requires you to download and run a file called rkill.com which will end all the virus process that are currently running on your system. Of course the obvious danger with that is that rkill.com could be a virus. Well I’m here to tell you it is not a virus, and it worked perfectly! On some systems, including mine, this filename won’t work (the virus at work again), so the site provides a link to a different file name, which did run and killed all the virus processes. This allowed me to then Malwarebytes software to find and quarantine the infected files. Sweetness!

internet security 2010 virus

I’m not going to go into a step by process for removing this annoying Internet Security 2010 virus, as it is well documented on bleepingcomputer.com at the link below. So if your system is being held hostage by the Vista internet security 2010 virus, don’t despair, removing it is not as difficult as you think! Good luck.

Information on how to remove the Internet Security 2010 Virus HERE

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