With an antivirus program such as norton.
I have the same problem like you, I found out the solution and finally removed the Mac protecor virus fully. You just need to reboot the infected computer up to the safe mode, then follow the guides listed shown on this link: blog.teesupport.com/fake-mac-protector-removal-guide-how-to-uninstall-mac-protector-virus-manually/
tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus found, but poliovirus was the first one whose presence has been recognized (in Ezypcean paint)
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Insidious
i picked this up by clicking the ok button from a warning message from microsoft. a teckky mate helped me remove/heal.i used avg anti virus to find it but it could heal it.so i downloaded an app called "hijackthis" from download.com i also ran spybot search and destroy.and spywareblaster. i run windows xp pro and i have removed the virus from most of the system, but avg tells me that there are traces in he system restore files.but it wont pick up the virus when doing a full search.this message pops up every now and then and tells me to do a search. any tips on removing the virus from restore files would be gratefull. sorry cant be of any more help.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
Back up all your impotant files. Reformat the hard drive and reinstall operating system and other applications. This works the best way.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
1983.
Some problems identified by a McAfee Virus scan would be computer viruses such and worms and trojans. It will find a virus, then remove it from your computer.
The illness we have come to know as AIDS was first identified in 1981. The cause of the illness, the HIV virus, was identified in 1983.
The first virus to be isolated and identified was the tobacco mosaic virus in 1892 by Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovsky.
The hantavirus is named after the Hantan River in South Korea, which was where the virus was first identified during the Korean War in the 1950s.
it was identified in the 80's, but due to things like virus incubation and the time it might take for someone to actually die from the first strains of the virus, it's possible it was around in the decade of the 70's
Coxsackie virus was discovered by Gilbert Dalldorf. He named the virus after the town of Coxsackie, New York, where he discovered the virus while doing research on polio.
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Had that virus on my system, McAfee removed it with no problems...as to type..sorry can't help there