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The rogue security product you speak of is called "MS Removal Tool" and it is trying to get you to enter your credit card details. It IS the virus/malware all the other ones are fake. I got rid of it by going to www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-ms-removal-tool and printing out the instructions and then following them. It is now gone from my system and its free.



I had that a bit ago, it comes up with a warning, so you go "WTF?" and click on it. Thats when it downloads and takes over your PC. You follow its instructions cos you're in a panic and it will take you to place where there's a program to buy for about $80. It looks a bit like mico soft.
What made me suspious was that it was in dollars and microsoft would have done it in pounds.
It also wouldn't let me download any other security software.

What I ended up doing was logging off, then logging in again on my daughters user accounton my pc which I found to be unaffected. So I was able to download Security Essentials (free ) which then manged to clear it out altogether

It did come back under a different name, but I used my daughters account again to get rid.

It came back once more, again with a different name, but that time I just closed it on the first page, and when I ran Security Essentials it wasn't there

So I recommend having at least 2 acounts on your pc, and if you get the warning message, just close it then run whatever security program you use

Too old to die young, too ugly to leave a good looking corpse