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From: "Alfred"

| I've had a major virus invasion, advertised on the desktop by a company in
| Latvia, : http://www.virusheat.com/?aff=1012.
| I chose to use Windows Defender to fix the problem, but these nice people on
| the Baltic sea saw fit to place a flashing warning icon on my task bar, an
| icon I can't remove, and on opening the web, a baloon starts with a warning
| that a serious virus has invaded and needs to be removed by VirusHeat, on
| paying the prescribed fee of $ 49.95 ! I can not remove the unwanted icon and
| ask for help.
|
| Frustrated Australian

You'll be glad to know this is NOT a virus.



Two part reply..

Perform Part 1 then perform Part 2.

It is suggested that you execute each tool in Normal Mode then in Safe Mode.



Part 1
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Use noahdfear's SmitFraud, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, et. al., removal tool -- SmitRem.exe
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/click%20counter/click.php?id=1

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic43659.html


Part 2
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S!ri's SmitfraudFix
http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php


* * * Please report back your results * * *


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp