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On the Windows taskbar, next to the clock, double-click the McAfee ( M) icon. You might find them of some interest, but you can get more detailed information from the sources I drew on.Please note that disabling virus protection also disables real-time spyware, e-mail, and instant message protection.ДЎ. I wrote a short blog when this strain of malware first appeared, and a second some time later looking at the money trail both of them drawing on the expertise of writers in this field more experienced than I am.

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By the time the code started doing something McAfee would have been in reactive mode, and the first thing that code does is to attack anti-virus programs. If the code was embedded in a YouTube page it effectively bypassed the first line of defence by getting past the firewall. There are many posts about Reveton (what Microsoft calls this) from a year or two back in the Top Threats section of Security Awareness.ДЄs for the question why McAfee didn't detect this : it's a question of timing. There are are removal guides for this malware in a number of places, and we could have directed you to a good DIY removal site if you had found your way here at the time of infection. You should perhaps report it to Google so they can clean it up and prevent anyone else getting infected. Perhaps not, if that's where the infection came from but equally they may have missed this particular video if it was posted some time ago. Google said some time ago they were trying to eliminate this method of infection, and I thought they had found a way to do so. More likely is that there was malicious code inserted into one of the comments on that YouTube page, which your browser loaded and which then immediately ran in your browser.

Here is a Removal Guide eclusively for the infection you had:ДЄustralian Communications and Media Authority Ransomware Removal GuideД¬atDaddy is almost right when he says there was something malicious in the YouTube video.

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I will insert an article which is very informative, and give you a better insight on how possibly you encountered this 'Nasty'. Evidently the Youtube video you were viewing had injected malicious code with-in it. It appears that you became a victim of RansomWare.