First off, I am a 40 year old man who is anything but computer savvy, so please refrain from mocking me. Second off, please understand that this situation is scary for me, so concise answers are greatly appreciated.
Here is the situation, my 12 year old son installed something with a virus today on our home computer. Something that has to do with Microsoft Office (which doesn’t make sense, since our system came with Officer Starter).
Anyway, my Adaware and Avast blocked some virus program called kmsemulator.exe. When I go scan for it, Avast comes up with it being Malware. I deleted the file, but that can’t be the end of it.
I’ve heard that these viruses take more to get rid of. So my questions are this: What kind of virus is kmsemulator.exe? What kind of damage can it do (I don’t know the difference between a virus and malware)? And what is the best way to get rid of this virus?
I don’t remember the name. But I do remember that it was actually Adaware that caught it. When my son came and got me, it showed that Adaware blocked kmsemulator.exe.
So I shouldn’t have deleted it? How do I make sure now that my system is safe and clean?
If it was indeed a keygen or crack, those are hack programs mainly designed to trick paid software into thinking you have paid for it (keygen is short for key generator).
That would definitely fit with the age group your son is in…a very common thing to try dowloading for kids, they see FREE offered and jump on it without thought of consequence, having most often never worked for a dime in their life yet.
Nothing to worry about, this is am possibly unwanted program, riskware. This files most often belongs to product localhost. A hacktool is a way to launch some program without having to buy it, that is wgy you have to terns keygen, crack, warez. You have it no longer, so you are secure,
