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Good heavens, what a bear. I had the 2011 round of this virus on my home machine, decided it would be easiest to reinstall from scratch than try to surgically remove it. My Father-in-Law got it on his computer and wouldn't let me wipe-reinstall, so I spent most of a day researching and going through the process to make it die. What a PITA!

The worst part, in my mind, is that there's no reasonably sane way to stop the d*** thing. You can't just close the popup (which is what everyone does) to keep from getting infected. Firewalls are useless. It was pretty much unfazed by the AV that both of us were running. (Avast! and AVG, if memory serves.) Crazy.

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