Yesterday my friend brought his sister’s laptop claiming that the condition of laptop is in dying stage. The laptop took around 7-10 minutes to load from setup screen to Windows boot screen, after that it will take another approximately 3-4 minutes to load. (That’s different case). After the Windows loaded and the desktop icons starts to appear suddenly I was alerted that the Windows was attacked by numerous viruses and need to updated to latest virus definition to perform full scan – I mean A LOT of threats.
The antivirus program that prompted such alert is AntiVirus 2009 which made me suspicious slightly. So, I Google and it turned out to be a rogue anti-spyware program. According to Spyware.com, AntiVirus 2009 uses Trojans to lurk in porn/warez websites disguised as video codecs and, upon entering the system, floods the user with popups and fake system notifications, supposedly to inform the user of an infection. For further information about this threat and how to remove the malware kindly head to here.
Interesting about this program is once you installed you cannot uninstall it. I used Add&Remove Program in Control Panel, TuneUp Utilities and even Revo Uninstaller, there is no trace of AntiVirus 2009 thus you can’t uninstall it in usual way.
So, moral of the story don’t just simply install any software even though the description sounds damn cool, Google it first to verify the authenticity of the program.
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