While surfing a page yesterday that I have visited in the past I got one of those screens we all hate to see ... I saw the "you've been had" notice that I was infected with a zeus trojan/hijacker and that I would have to call a number and pay to have it removed . Rather than click on *anything* on that page , I held the power button down until the comp shut down . My next step was to use a peripheral hookup to use a different comp to run scans on the hard drive that has my OS on it . No threats found by either MalwareBytes or Avira antivirus , so I hooked it back up and booted the comp , then performed the same scans again with the same results . So far , no problems ... But here's the kicker . One or more variants of this nasty little bug is designed to steal your banking and other sensitive information and send it off to "them" , "they" will then use that info to steal your hard earned money . Multiple scans have found nothing but I'm still a bit leery of accessing my bank accounts, paypal , etc from this comp . What do y'all think , can this thing hide that well ? Am I risking everything if I use this comp to access my accounts without a total OS wipe and reinstall ? Reset to an earlier date , or is this thing hiding in the restore files too ?
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7 years ago