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I picked this up and really had a hard time getting rid of it.
atmclk.exe - it's one of those selfreplicating deals ..but Norton doesn't see it nor the new MS Defender.
The way I had to get rid of it was very cumbersome ..and I'm still sorting out a few things. What it does is put an official looking virus warning popup and installs an icon on your system tray. It leads you to a site for something like SpywareQuake or whatnot.
Anyway, I, as usual, put it into google and there was no "official" solution. Symantec had no data on it.
I found this forum It required manually deleting the offending files in the command prompt/dos window. You don't know how rusty I am with DOS commands. You can figure out what to delete from the system32 folder by first searching in Windows and just getting files that were written on the date that the popup began to appear. Then reboot in safe mode w/command prompt. You can't get rid of it while in windows. You can't close the program fast enough and delete it before it's in use again.
I imagine that the pros will have a fix for it in a few days or so (I hope) ..but before then ..this appears to be the only way.
I wonder why the vendor of the software that this directs you to can't be jailed for this behavior
A couple of prison terms should reduce this type of mechant.
atmclk.exe - it's one of those selfreplicating deals ..but Norton doesn't see it nor the new MS Defender.
The way I had to get rid of it was very cumbersome ..and I'm still sorting out a few things. What it does is put an official looking virus warning popup and installs an icon on your system tray. It leads you to a site for something like SpywareQuake or whatnot.
Anyway, I, as usual, put it into google and there was no "official" solution. Symantec had no data on it.
I found this forum It required manually deleting the offending files in the command prompt/dos window. You don't know how rusty I am with DOS commands. You can figure out what to delete from the system32 folder by first searching in Windows and just getting files that were written on the date that the popup began to appear. Then reboot in safe mode w/command prompt. You can't get rid of it while in windows. You can't close the program fast enough and delete it before it's in use again.
I imagine that the pros will have a fix for it in a few days or so (I hope) ..but before then ..this appears to be the only way.
I wonder why the vendor of the software that this directs you to can't be jailed for this behavior
