Think Point or the ThinkPoint virus is a fake antispyware program created to steal your money. It’s a program that imitates a security tool, hijacking your browser and changing your registry. Initial infection will result in a malfunction of Windows desktop, removing your desktop icons and displaying a fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert. This alert endorses five applications, including Think Point. Executing any of these programs will install Think Point on your computer.Upon activation Think Point will conduct a scan resulting in array of trojans, viruses and spyware being found your machine. Think Point will also proceed to block Internet access and show a page “Potential Threat Details. Threat of Virus Attack!” Attempting to run any application will also be blocked by Think Point and will release a message stating that the executable file is already compromised. This is an attempt to persuade you into obtaining the $90 registered version of ThinkPoint Antivirus.Think Point does not detect any real system threats.
The virus/malware is attempting to force you into paying for the licensed version of software. Do not payfor the license or provide any credit card information. It is strongly advised that you remove Think Point as soon as it is detected on your system.To get rid of and remove Think Point check out any of the following articles:
- Remove Think Point Quickly and Easily at remove-malware.net
- Getting Rid of ThinkPoint at 2-spyware.com
- How to Eliminate Think Point Application at 2-viruses.com
- Removal Instructions of Think Point at precisesecurity.com
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Thanks for this post. That malware is a real pain. Guess this has brought some inadvertent attention to your site, huh?
On a side note, I love your logo, looks awesome. Thanks again for the info and links.
Not a problem @Chris. Yeah, I updated the title tags and next thing I know I’m seeing a crazy amount of traffic pouring in for this new Malware. I figured if people are looking to find a solution I should help out and post what I find. Thanks for the kudos on the logo too!
haha, i also found your site through it. i agree w/ chris, ur logo is pretty novel.
and if this is helpful for anyone: to prevent infection (too late for me), press alt+f4 to get out of the browser altogether. when i tried to get out of an ad-ridden page w/ the close button, it prompted me w/ a window and a button that says ‘leave this page’. DO NOT CLICK IT! alt+f4 whenever in doubt. as to how to clean it, there are several forums that discuss steps. one important step i missed (and not often mentioned): since this seems to be a rather new malaware, make sure ur malawarebytes antivirus is current w/ its definitions (otherwise, ur scans will mistakenly find nothing malicious on your computer!) valuable keywords for me: thinkpoint virus, thinkpoint trojan. best of luck everyone.
Luckily had system restore point from a couple days ago. It’s letting me do it. Hopefully this should be easy fix if it works. Will update…
I unfortunately got this virus. It wouldn’t let me open my internet explorer or firefix browser. But then I left my computer ON with the same screen up, and didn’t go back to it for 24 hours. For some reason, now it WOULD let me open firefox. So I was able to download malwarebytes and now everything seems to be fine again. For some reason ThinkPoint never took away my icons like other people are saying it did to them.
Had this thinkpoint thing appear on my computer today. Unfortunately I’m not the greatest with computers so it took me all day workingout what to do ! In the end did a system restore then downloaded norton and did a scan etc and got rid of it. This virus is no fun to deal with ! Really annoying that I couldn’t go on the net to work out how to get it to go away !
Back with an update…
Think Point infected my system on 11/4/10 got my computer back up and running on 11/6/10. Few days later something didn’t add up so I started snooping some more (meanwhile regularly running thorough Malwarebyte’s & Norton 360) and noticed several outbound emails from my hotmail account to all of my contacts to random web url’s ending in .php.
Long story short I ultimately ended up formatting (11/18/10) after backing up some media files tired of chasing this virus around. Feels good to have a clean slate again.
Anyways thank you for posting the info for Think Point removal as im sure alot of people are finding it useful.
If you go to Control Panel and add a new user, give it administrative priv and log off and back in as this new user, now you can download malwarebytes and microsoft security essentials to rid this infection. It sits as an exe in c:\users\yourmainusername\appdata\local, you’ll see the exe there, just delete or rename it, log back out and back in as your normal user. Go to internet explorer options / connections and uncheck to use a proxy server ( it sets this )