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That is what the virus does. It hijacks your browser and always takes you to their site where of course for a fee they will sell what you need to fix what they caused!
Our company uses Symantec's Norton Corporate Edition and it works for our customers but I am not sure what the best off the shelf one is. I personally use the Malwarebytes mainly and occassionally I will run SpyBot Search and Destroy to fix things but since I get the NCE free I use it for protection. Don't feel bad last month I had to spend over four hours cleaning two stations at our office. One was a developer and the other was a hardware tech and they both knew better than to click on the link because we had just sent a memo out to our customers about the danger.
Just don't depend on Windows defender.
I learned a trick from our city IT guru...
If all else fails, create a new user, set it as an administrator, transfer your important files to the Shared folders, and delete the old user.
Right about now, I am wishing that I had subscribed to the computer backup service that BethinOklahoma's company provides. I also wish I were computer literate enough to create a new user and transfer files. We have several user accounts on the computer already. Can I use any of them? I can't find the internet on that computer. This is no fun.
Stupid computer. If it were a chicken it would be a
CBOF