Spam and spam again. How to find a cure for the virus?

Spam in social networks has reached grandiose scale and the most perverse forms, so that even experienced difficult to distinguish a normal message from spam. Newsletter spam from friends at the moment the most dangerous and effective. We're used to trusting friends, is not it? 

So, one day you get a message from (not) a familiar person (underline as appropriate) about this content: "Hello! I guess you broke, because from you monstrous fray spam! I also like that happened; I found (found) medicine here: link to the viral life ".  

And here the main thing - do not succumb to panic and not follow the link! Since, most likely, you'll be following the same the spam. Will it look something like this: you can not enter the site under the pretext (preventive maintenance) or nefarious (the requirement of activation of accounts) and your name will crumble mailing all your contacts. Believe me, this is the most "harmless" because there is banner blocking software Windows, and there will just reinstall the system. 

If you are so lucky to read the tips below on how to act so as not to lose money and the data on your computer. 

Remember! 

Social sites do not require the payment of the entrance to your profile. Paid to reactivate your account on the site introduced from the end of 2008 and is required only once! Everything else - fraud! 

Remember! 

never require sms to log in to your account! Do not send sms, if you have a page of activation instead of the login page - this is a virus, but fraudsters are trying to pull money out of you! Administration site warns about all the changes on the site, including via the media, and no one has ever demanded to re-activate by sending SMS to enter! 

Con artists who created the virus, which requires the sms activation sites in, in the postal service, just want to pull out your money. Once you have, by their credulity, send sms to the proposed number, nothing happens, you just stay on the activation page, the virus is not deleted and you still can not go to the sites mentioned ... Do not "Activate", you only lose your money. 

Note: 

Laboratories, specializing in antivirus, often referred to only one IP-address of the host, which contains a page with the activation - 211.95.78.99. It belongs to the Chinese service providers, so our units to combat fraud in the sphere of high technology can not do anything with them about it and just shrug their shoulders. 

So what got you a virus? 

The virus got onto your computer through the program; you are automatically downloaded and installed by clicking on the link in the email sent to you. Yes, it looked like no pages or mysterious inscription on the page, or even as a (fantasy they do not hold). 

For reference: men are more likely pick up viruses, because they - fertile audience links to porn, because few who refuses to take a look at "it", especially if it can download and watch free of charge. A ssylochki something contagious ... Con artists know all about our weaknesses with you! 

At the time of activation of the virus, users note that the short time they see some kind of black box (it is editing the registry via the command line), which disappears within a second, then the virus saves the edited register and starts the countdown, which lasts from 1 second to 12 hours. 

Everything! Inexperienced users in the trap and then can no longer go to the site but instead of the main page of the website see the activation page. Therefore, you are forced to redirect to the pages of social networking sites on the page activation. 

By the way, the virus can steal your password and e-mail to your name to send spam. 

How can get rid of the virus and keep your account? 

For example, the activation you offer to send a paid SMS, in order to enter into your profile. Typically, the entrance asked to send an SMS is not very large value, for example, 5 rubles per SMS, but it is a fraud. Just type in a search engine "cost SMS to so and so" and you'll be shocked greed spammers! This amount of 180 to 864 rubles! More recently, offered to pay for web money, where even more money! 

How did it all can be cured? This virus after activation of simply rewrites in your computer's operating system, file host, is responsible for compliance with IP-address domain in the internet domain name. That's it. What would regain the sites this file should be cleaned. Host file located in the directory c: windowssystem32driversetc, for quick access can go like this: Start Menu - Run - C: windowssystem32driversetc hosts, we find it, open Notepad, remove all the addresses and save. Everything. 

Also recommend that the file's properties by clicking one "read only", then file will be relatively inaccessible for editing. What about? Because now the virus program is not learned to bypass this "protection", but the time is coming ... You do remember that we live in an era of high speeds and new technologies? They apply to the time ... 

Well, now you know how to go back to sotsseti. And his experience to unlock the operating system, I will share in his next article.