[BC] Anti-virus/registry fix recommendations...

[David Kaye]

--- On Mon, 6/18/12, Glen Kippel <glen.kippel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Twice now I'm gotten phone calls from heavily-accented
> people claiming to be from Microsoft, telling me that I have
> harmful downloads on my computer.  How would they
> know?  I told them to buzz off.  

Yeah, that's bogus, as is the pop-up.  Microsoft is not going to phone you and they're not going to offer to fix things for a price.  The easiest giveaway that something is bogus is the improper English they use in their pop-ups.  

Download ComboFix from the http://www.bleepingcomputer.com website (accept no substitute site!) and run that first.  Your MS Security Essentials should come back on the next reboot.  

I'm not sure why MSSE was disabled; it's normally excellent at finding this stuff before it causes malice.