The most common winter 2010-2011 virus is the influenza virus, which sent a huge number of schoolchildren, students and working citizens to the “sick leave”. In the digital world, there is an equally unpleasant and common analogue-an SMS virus that has had more than one thousand operating systems.
The symptoms of this computer disease are manifested in the form of an obsessive sentence, which sets out the requirement: “either you send SMS a certain content by the XXX number, or we guarantee a violation of the performance of your operating system”. Very often the situation is exacerbated by the accompanying text, which indicates that the referred to the user’s visit to “unusual” network resources appeared. Naturally, having discovered such a compromising inscription on a working PC, any average user agrees to unconditionally give up the required amount, especially if there really was the fact of visiting an “unusual” site.
But it is not necessary to pay in this case at all, since such requirements are not legal, and the SMS virus itself can be quite easy to destroy. And for this you do not need to drink antibiotics and tea with lemon, but the following must be performed:
Prevention and once again prevention. An antivirus program is must work on your computer, equipped with the latest bases of “viral threats”. There are a huge number of promoted and inconspicuous software products that allow you to defeat almost any “virus”. However, you must remember that “check in the background” is not a panacea from all virtual threats, therefore, it is necessary to plan a periodic scan of PC problem areas (preferably in the background or until the operating system is loaded).
Another method of prevention is special plugins that are built into the code of your browser and “cut off” undesirable or dangerous content consisting of malicious code. A good way will be a preliminary check of links to an unknown site. This action can also be performed on-line mode, using the services of site manufacturers of antivirus on. It is this complex of preventive measures that will allow you not to fall under the press SMS Virus.
Treatment. If you missed the moment, and the malicious code still contacted your operating system, then you do not need to despair-you need to start treating. To do this, try the following:
Find in any search service, using a SMS request code and a virus phone code as a search key, the desired code that is sent (for money) to a mobile for gullible users. There is a high probability that you will receive this code without payment and unlock your PC.
It did not help, then edit the Hosts file, saving it from all notes except “127.0.0.1 Localhost “
Again? In this case, try to use the services of professionals-download and activate special utilities that destroy the SMS virus, for example -digita_cure, cureit, avptool, livecd DR.Web, and so on.
In especially “hellish” cases associated with the distribution of an SMS-shiflshik on your PC, you need to look for an individual medicine, and then use it disconnected from the network and a computer loaded in a safe mode.
Final recommendation – observe the technique of “network security”. Do not launch “left” files obtained from unverified sources, avoid thoughtless surfing (or at least check the URL), ignore letters from unknown addresses (especially those accompanied by links or attached files).
