Mattmeister
Member
As I'm often out of the country, I've grown reliant on myp2p and Thai TV to catch the occasional live stream of city games. I wouldn't normally post anything here, but after what happened to me much earlier today, it might be worth some of you taking note.
Last night I set my alarm very early in the morning (8 hrs ahead in China) - went to myp2p, clicked on a couple of streams before I got a very good feed. This lasted all of two minutes before my laptop completely locked-up with an apparent AV demo called Antivira. Absolutely no applications would work - all accompanied with a spurious infection message directing you to an unsecure, fake, but very plausible full product payment page. No internet pages would open, so impossible to look for fixes. Control panel, system tools, uninstall etc. not working either. In this situation, it's easy to see why some people might succomb and give credit card details away to get rid of the problem.
Fortunately my wife brought her laptop with her, so I could look for fixes, but the first recommended 'commercial' option didn't work for me, and manual removal is not for the faint hearted. To cut a long story short, I opened Windows in safe mode, and used system restore - this appears to have done the trick.
Anyone else come across this??
Last night I set my alarm very early in the morning (8 hrs ahead in China) - went to myp2p, clicked on a couple of streams before I got a very good feed. This lasted all of two minutes before my laptop completely locked-up with an apparent AV demo called Antivira. Absolutely no applications would work - all accompanied with a spurious infection message directing you to an unsecure, fake, but very plausible full product payment page. No internet pages would open, so impossible to look for fixes. Control panel, system tools, uninstall etc. not working either. In this situation, it's easy to see why some people might succomb and give credit card details away to get rid of the problem.
Fortunately my wife brought her laptop with her, so I could look for fixes, but the first recommended 'commercial' option didn't work for me, and manual removal is not for the faint hearted. To cut a long story short, I opened Windows in safe mode, and used system restore - this appears to have done the trick.
Anyone else come across this??
