I recently caught a virus on my work computer.
My antivirus program picked it up and seemed to remove it but what was actually happening was that it wasn’t removing the main virus file – only the files that were being infecting. It didn’t look like it was doing anything particularly bad until I logged into my online banking with LloydTSB…
It seemed to intercept my login and replace the “enter three characters from your memorable information” with a text box for me to enter ALL of my memorable info. Now LloydsTSB have recently changed their online banking so I thought this maybe a part of it. But once I did this a strange permissions page came up and telling me to set up a temporary payment which I can adjust later – click continue and there was a genuine looking payment set up page asking me to set up a payment between my main bank account and “LloydsTSB”.
At this point I know something isn’t right so I logged out and tried again – same thing.
It turns out that this is the (very clever) virus intercepting my login and trying to set up a payment from my bank account to who knows where!
So I picked up the pace in trying to get rid of this virus from my pc. After a number of failed attempts by Norton, Microsoft Security Essentials and Malware bytes I found the only scanner that got rid of it is Eset online virus scanner. Thats right a web page that scans your pc and removes virus’!
The link to the page is http://www.eset.com/online-scanner/run.
I’ve also noticed that the LloydsTSB login page now has warning and antivirus advice so I’m obviously not the only person this has happened to.
My advice is always being careful when dealing with your online banking and watch out for anything unusual. Also if anything like this happens to you change EVERY password you have!!!