Snopes beat me to this one!

Here is the EMAIL you would get. 

The RED boxes change and are different for each person that receives the mail.  It also comes with a link to the fake IRS to go and enter in private information.  (I have not included the link because I do not want anyone clicking on it!)

Here is the Entire story of its background covered by Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/unreported.asp

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ANTIVIRUS SOFT is NOT and Antivirus Program!

It is a "rogue" Fake program.  It gives the appearance of being an Anti-virus program and even performs Fake scans to make you believe it is doing something. It even will make a Fake list of things it found that are not really even on your computer!

Many computers were infected with its predecessor

Antivirus Pro 2009.

These are the same people and they have returned with something new.

It takes over your PC, you can NOT get on the internet, and.....wait for it.......

they found a away to make their files invisible to all the removal programs that you can use to get rid of it.

They leave you with seemingly only ONE choice.  BUY their product with a credit card number and you get removal instructions with your purchase.  Well guess what.......It's a lie too!

The money is taken from you and you are left with a useless computer.

Well...James Clancy.com is here to help. 

I will go over the MANUAL way to both remove this evil malicious spyware, as well as show you how to make the program be visible again to anti-malware removal programs. ALL FREE.   Can't beat that? Can you?

Computer Attack ***ALERT*** Part 2 of 2

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First of all, don't waste a lot of time running scan after scan with things your "technical friend" said to run.
It's not going to work. Plus, the fix will take about 2 hours of your time. So plan for it.
One reason is that this new version of the spyware embeds itself in many many places...over 1,000.
One of those places re-installs the spyware after you think you removed it with some great thing a friend gave you or you found on the Internet.
Well, it will be back when you turn on your computer next time.

What about SAFE MODE? 
Answer---nope....not without some instruction.  You may get 30-60 seconds of internet time in Safe Mode before your computer is stopped and the program starts running.

So...what do you do?

1st...you do need to boot into safe mode with networking.
Open internet explorer..and you will get an error....because the program will not allow you on the internet.

STEP 1
Go to TOOLS
Internet Options
Click the CONNECTIONS tab
LAN Settings button
and UNCHECK ALL BOXES!
Nothing in that windows should be marked.
Say ok and close out of the Browser.

STEP 2
NEXT for XP users, click START-RUN and type Regedit.msc
For VISTA users, click the start button, type "CMD" and in the DOS box, type Regedit.

Find and delete the following Registry keys if they are present
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random charaters]"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random characters]"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:5555"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = ".exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download "RunInvalidSignatures" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvSoft
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVS4YOU

STEP 3Reboot into SAFE MODE again, open the browser and you should have internet now.Now download and run MALWAREBYTES.If you need it, I have it on my Downloads site.

http://www.jamesclancy.com/Downloads.html
Update it as well before using.

STEP 4
Do the FULL SCAN. It maye take an hour, but it will now find all the problem files.
Click REMOVE and reboot to normal use.
It will be slow the first time as you really have given your PC a workout.

ALTERNATE IDEA
If you don't want to mess with getting into the registry or blowing off 2 hours of your time.
JamesClancy.com will do this for you for $50.   You will also get a free internal cleaning of your PC with before and after photos.

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That's right!

A  DVD Burning and IDE / SATA Cables 6 part  demo.

You should click your way through from Part 1 to 6.  I added as many pictures as possible which should make it easier and quicker to get through.  

Start here with Part 1

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If you recall from Part 1....you should know if your DVD player is IDE (ribbon cable) or SATA (color coated thinner cable).

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have VISTA, you want the check box that mentions DMA to be checked. If you have IDE, UNcheck this box.

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have Windows XP, you want the settings to appear as they are below. If you have IDE, then use the pull down menu to choose an option that lists "PIO."

Click OK and that that brings us to the end.  "PIO" is for IDE Ribbon Cables and "DMA" is for SATA cables.  These things are data transfer modes and tell the computer how fast or slow to transfer Data in and out of some device (remember "IO"?)  

So now you have all the acronyms and technical information. If you want to know exactly was DMA and PIO are for educational reasons, then open up Google and surf the internet to all the definitions out there!

Good luck and have fun!

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Right Click on each channel and then LEFT click on Properties

You should see a tab for Advanced Settings. Left Click that tab.

The last part is totally different depending if you have VISTA or XP.

In Part 6 I will showed both.

Go on to Part 6

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In the Device manager are some items in alphabetical order.
Look for the line starting with IDE ATA

Click on the plus "+" sign next to it to expand the list.

In XP you will see items called PRIMARY and SECONDARY.
It's the same thing as what I have circled.

Go to Part 5

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If you go to your Desktop, in this case I have VISTA, but you can have XP....and RIGHT CLICK on Computer....or My Computer if you have XP.....you will get a menu like the below image.

LEFT CLICK on Properties.

Then in in VISTA you will see the below image.....Click on Device manager. 

In XP...there will be a Tab that says HARDWARE and then a Button that says DEVICE MANAGER.

Go to Part 4

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When it comes to burning a DVD, it is important to know the type of DVD drive connection you have.  There is no real way to tell by clicking on some check box or window.  You have to open up the computer and look at the back side of the DVD drive..and see if it has a Ribbon cable…or a color coated SATA cable.

The Ribbon cable, or the “IDE” cable reads in data at a slower speed than its new counterpart, the SATA cable. There are also 2 type of references used discussing these 2 types of cabled connections.   Some people may see error or informational messages that display the acronym “IO.”   

IO stands for “Input-Output.”  Simply put, IO is short for generally referring to something putting in, or taking out , data.   There is a  CD drive, and DVD drive, and diskette drive, a thumb drive, even a Hard Drive.

The speeds of these devices can change if they are not set properly.  The speed of a SATA cable is faster than the speed of a Ribbon IDE cable.  So if you have a SATA dvd player…and the setting for its speed is set to IDE….then it will not read as fast. 

Part 3 will show you how to look for and change this setting.

Go on to Part 3

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A DVD burner can read data into the computer a varying speeds. of course, we would all know faster is better in this category. So here is something technical that you may want to know about DVD burning and burning speeds.

These days there are 2 ways that computer parts wire up inside your computer. 1 way is called IDE, and the other way is called SATA. Take a look at this photo. The cable on the left is a ribbon cable. That is the type called IDE. The one on the right is smaller and color coated, it is called SATA.

Go on to Part 2

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