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XP Security 2012 Firewall alert gox.exe? Browsers, anti-viruses won't run

#1 tehbazzard

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Posted 23 June 2011 - 07:15 PM

So, I have this potential spyware fake anti-virus on my computer named "XP Security 2012 Firewall Alert". When I open up Browsers, it gives me a message saying that the program could potentially give me viruses, and when I open up Malware Bytes, it displays a fake scan instead. When I check via ctrl+alt+delete, it is "gox.exe" as a process.

I am not sure how I got this spyware, but perhaps it was a possible rootkit in my computer, as I have a Google+Bing redirect rootkit, and I also had some mysterious virus in my laptop that randomly opening up internet explorer in the background. Very bothersome.

I would post this into logs, but I can't actually GET a Malwarebytes Log out of my laptop given how this annoying malware shows up whenever I open up Malwarebytes. Very annoying.

#2 boopme

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Posted 23 June 2011 - 07:41 PM

Hello, Please follow our Removal Guide here Remove Win 7 Antispyware 2012 and Vista Antivirus 2012 name changing rogue .
After reading how the malware is misleading you ...
You will move to the Automated Removal Instructions

After you completed that, post your scan log here,let me know how things are.
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Copy and paste the contents of that report in your next reply. Be sure to post the complete log to include the top portion which shows MBAM's database version and your operating system.

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