A pop-up alert claiming to come from Avast warns of infection by win32:adware-gen, saying “Adware was found!”, and has an animated yellow and black radiation symbol in top left corner that grows smaller and larger.
Is this a legitimate alert from a Avast or is it a trojan pretending to be Avast?
After clicking on “repair” or “move to chest” on this pop-up, my desktop was suddenly populated with a bunch of invasive pop-ups from something called VirusRemover2008, trying to lead me to a site to purchase its software. From that time on, I’ve got malware and rootkits in my computer.
It is possible that it was a legit alert (see image, mine may differe slightly as I’m using a different skni, but the layout is essentially the same) but something else sneaked in under the radar.
Whatever you do don’t visit the site, not only will they be trying to extract money from you but potentially steal your personal/private/financial data and properly infect your system.
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.