Just had a computer Nasty

Happily going about my business online and all of a sudden I get something appear on my Taskbar looking very much like "Windows Defender" . It says I have a Blaster Worm infecting everything that seems to load . I know that it isn`t the case as I run BT netprotect Plus and a Blaster Worm is old hat . It would have mentioned something . So from that I take the fact that it is Bullsh1t . It wants me to "Authorise" the product but there are no names anywhere to say who has made this software or where it is from (alarm Bells round 2) . I hit Ctrl Alt Del as usual and it won`t run the task manager and says that`s infected too *cough*BoL Lox*cough* and when I try to launch Firefox it says that`s gone down the tubes as well ... yeah right .

So a "Safe Mode" boot is required and I download a Free Malware program called Malwarebyte`s Anti Malware , install and update and it removes it almost instantly , I reboot and allow windows to load it from the startup and it is removed . And what is the only thing different I have done from the norm this year ?

I did a search for pictures of a certain Al-Qaeda leaders death to see if there was any visual proof leaked online and something new has sneaked in so I think the latest cracker/hacker thing is to ride the crest of this new wave . What has worried me is that this is so new that it has sneaked past my Anti-Virus and Firewall , it was easily removed but was not detected immediately , I`ve sent a quarantined file to most of the Anti-virus people so hopefully an update will apear soon for most programs . Pain in the ar5e for an hour though . So a little bit of a heads up for those less savvy with the workings of crap like this

i look for to mcmuppets here at work screaming about their laptops which of course they use at home but always use a fire walled router and leave the antivirus on.

cheers for the heads up

thanks for the warning and more thanks for the instructions on how to put it right if it happens to my laptop..