Virus Alert!

V4nger

V4nger

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Oh dear.

I have been using my laptop most of the day and literally 5 minutes ago I opened a video on Youtube and after I finished it an alert in the taskbar pops up and says that my computer is at risk. I thought it was really suspicious when an antivirus program that I had never heard of popped up out of no where and started doing a "Virus Scan". Then I tried to open Taskmanager and a warning opened saying "tskmngr.exe is infected would you like to run a virus scan now?". Then I tried to go on OcUK on my laptop then it says that chrome.exe is infected and that I will have to pay for internet security. Nothing works now and I am writing this on my other computer. I have quite a lot of stuff I would like to keep on my laptop and I really don't want to do another format and spend the next week trying to update Windows XP.

Please help me guys!

Btw the suspected virus is called AV Security Suite.
 
Thank you so much for the speedy replies people! I'm off to restart my lappy and do as that page instructed and get malwarebytes.
 
I much prefer XP to Vista or 7, I will be getting 7 for my new PC soon but I'll try and find a theme that is like XP because I love it so much. It's hard to change after more than 8 years of using it! :p
 
Well thanks for your help guys. I managed to get the virus removed with the help of malwarebytes after a few long hours of scanning on my very slow lappy. :D

The only thing I can't work out is where it came from. I got it straight after I watched a Youtube video.
 
Well it's not so much the actual OS that I don't want to change, it's the lay out of XP that I love. I just hate the weird task bar of 7 and the way all windows of the same program stack up and things like that. If I somehow change 7 to make it more like the layout of XP I would love it. Vista is second to XP, then 7.
 
Updates could be the problem. My Java and Flash are up to date. But there is an update for the .Net Framework that I cannot install for some reason whenever I try. Doesn't really matter though as I should have a shiny new PC by the end of this summer with Windows 7 on it :D
 
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