Hi. My daughter’s machine is running XP with AVAST 4.8 and has gotten a virus message which has taken over the desktop with a bizarre misspelled warning. She has tried to run Avast but gets repeated error messages along with hundreds of files marked as “unreadable” at which point we get to a blue screen saying that Windows must shut down. ANy help on this? thank you. John
It’s a fake alert trying to trick you to download a bogus rogue antivirus/antispyware.
I Suggest:
Try a boot time scan with avast! Right click the scanner screen, select ‘schedule a boot time scan’ and reboot when requested. (Or open the tab at the top left of the scanner screen and select the boot time option from there.)
When you have finished all the scans, scan for out-of-date and insecure software using Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI) and update any vulnerable software: this will help to prevent future infections.