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My computer got infected from an external drive with a virus masquerading itself as an official Microsoft looking anti-malware calling itself ThinkPoint ! If you see something like the screen shot below, do not click any of the buttons. If you did, then the malware will be installed on your machine and it will force you to restart the computer.  Upon restarting, the following screen will be shown. Once the computer is infected, then you cannot bring up the Windows Task Manager . Instead, it will show the screen below. I found a way to kill off the ThinkPoint malware by using the PsTools from the Windows Sysinternals website. Download PsTools and unzip to a folder e.g. C:\Share\PsTools . Kill off the ThinkPoint process Open up a Windows Command Prompt . In the Command Prompt , type in the following commands to list out the running processes: C:\> cd \share\pstools C:\> pslist A list of running processes is displayed. Determine the process id number of ...

Yeah right. What will scammers think of next? I received this email claiming to be from Barclay Credit Bank but a tell-tale sign is the correspondence email address barclay.bk@live.com - why would Barclay use a free email account from Microsoft? BARCLAY CREDIT BANK PLC 246/B Tideslea Path, West Phamesmead , London SE28 ONH , United Kingdom FAX; 0044-704-576-3791 Dear Friend, RE:INSTRUCTION TO CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITH THE SUM OF US$4.500,000.00 We at this bank wish to congratulate and inform you that after through review and evaluation of your Inheritance/Contract funds in conjunction with the World Bank Auditor General and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment report, your payment file was forwarded to us for immediate transfer of the above quoted amount to your designated bank account from their offshore account with us. The reports given to us shows that you have been going through hard times by paying a lot of money to see to the release of your funds, which has been dela...