irritating malware-the 2nd time around

so theres this very irritatin bit of malware thats been doin the roundz of the internet for a couple of months………..named XP Antivirus 2008

Infection #1

back in april…..on my moms laptop…..shed been browsin,wen sm antivirus thingy popped outta her taskbar n showd a report dat said the comp hd been infected wid abt 3 trojans(no report from avira whatsoever),and recommended a site which had specific removal tools for them…………..so she went on the said site n clicked download………..this then downloaded a file,and then proceeded to open about a 100 windows of internet explorer,when she’d tried to close them via task manager,it showed that it task manager could only be opened and used by administrator,which was pretty awkward,as she was on her administrator account……………….

Recovery #1

transferred firefox to her laptop via usb………searched around for a specific tool to kill the malware……….

found a symantec tool for it,which didnt quite work,so finally had to perform a system recovery to about 12 hours before the infection……………..

All is well.
Infection #2

last week,again on mom’s laptop………………she’d opened a spammy ecard which found itself in her outlook inbox……………….and again appeared the little icon in the taskbar,and its trusty sidekick,telling her that there were more than 126 viruses and trrojans on the disk,in the form of a fake report……………..no internet explorer manipulation this time around……….the wall paper changes to a fake report about how many viruses there are on the drive,and the display properties menu is locked….the administrator bullsh*t again………..

Recovery #2

went online,searched fo specific fix…….nothing in sight…………….had to try to restore the system,which somehow,decided only to let me restore to about 5 minutes ago,which,as tou all knw,is next to useless…………….with the last loss-free option gone,the only thing that could be done to save moms old laptop,was to completely reformat the c drive………………….

So,we said good bye to all the data on the c drive,and were left lamenting for a better antivirus(avira failed again)………..

Moral of the entire story:NOD32 and Kaspersky ar he only 2 functional antivirus systems in todays world.

All is well,except for an astonishingly empty c drive.