Zinaps Trojan/Virus

[kcchief19]

Stood out to me because I got this on my machine today and I rarely if ever get things like this. Zinaps is a purported "anti-virus" program that installs itself on your computer without your knowledge. Looks like it only started popping up within the last 24 hours. Best information on it I found was on Yahoo! Answers of all places.

Not too hard to get rid of if you know what you're doing but I'm not entirely sure how it got on my machine. It got on my machine about 6pm and I've looked through my history and don't see any oddball sites I've been too outside the mainstream today. When it installed my browser popped open a new window that almost looked like it was a PDF and my browser froze for about 30 seconds. I have one stray listing in my history file that matches the timeframe, so I'm confident that's the one but it goes to a Web site that doesn't appear to exist.

Just a heads up ... watch for warning messages from your systray about an anti-virus program running.

[MikeVic]

Thank you.