Today a terrible virus is walking on the Internet blocking access to the Vkontakte.ru site. Symptoms of the appearance of this computer disease are the same for everyone. When you try to enter the site, your page does not open, supposedly the site administration offers you to register in the system using SMS activation. The administration explains this measure as a forced action to combat spam mailings. And there are users who naively believe these statements and send SMS, hoping to get an access code, but this access is still not there. But as soon as you enter your own phone number, you will receive an SMS with a request to send a response. Do not do this.
In this trick lies the idea of scammers. The reply SMS will be paid, and you will lose a certain amount of money, which is on the account of your phone. In such an impudent way, scammers manage to earn a living.
Dear users, remember, the administration of Vkontakte.ru will never ask for sending SMS to restore your account! Well, if they blocked the account for spam, then this is forever. This whole story suggests that your computer has infected the Vkontakte virus.
So, roll up your sleeves, look for the pest in the computer. Take a closer look at the address of the site from which SMS activation is required, and you will see that this is the address of a copy of the Vkontakte.ru site, and not the real one.
As a rule, you need to look for the Vkontakte virus by opening the file C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts, where it replaces the address vkontakte.ru or vkontakte.com with another. Once you reach the hosts file, open it with a regular text editor and delete all lines if they mention the Vkontakte site. Be sure to save the changes. Please note that you need to open the hosts file, but in no case hosts.txt. Everything in it that hints at harmfulness is deleted without regrets and the result saved. This should work, and there is hope that the VKontakte virus will be destroyed. By the way, DrWeb antivirus detects this problem and fixes it.
If, after the work done, you still cannot get to the Vkontakte website and the hosts file is cleaned by you, it follows that your computer is infected with some hidden virus that you could not find. He, most likely, is stuck in the system and can recover deleted files again . This situation leads to the fact that the Vkontakte virus can be eliminated only by treating the computer as a whole. This cannot be avoided.
You can try to remove the VKontakte virus in the following way: click "Start -> Run", write "cmd" (without quotes). When the console window opens, write “route -f” and restart the computer.
If all our tricks did not lead to anything and the hosts file is restored again, we make another attempt, for which you need to use the “Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware” superprogram, which can be downloaded free of charge on the Internet. After installing it, be sure to do an update and scan the computer. Vkontakte viruses should be detected, and other problems will emerge with them. Ruthlessly remove everything found.
We hope that such an unpleasant virus will not infect you more, and you will be happy to spend time on Vkontakte!