Published in December 29th, 2008
Description of Antivirus 2009 Pro and consequences of its residing on your PC
It is incorrect to put Antivirus 2009 Pro (Antivirus 2009Pro) for malware pieces with similar names. Antivirus 2009 Pro removal requires absolutely different actions to be performed as compared to those needed e.g. to remove Antivirus Pro 2009 (AntivirusPro 2009) or Antivirus 2009. [...]
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Published in December 29th, 2008
Description of Spyware Protect 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Spyware Protect 2009 (SpywareProtect 2009) has been created to make users believe it is an antispyware application. In reality, though, they need to remove Spyware Protect 2009 as this application belongs itself to the type of applications we call spyware. Its installation is [...]
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Published in December 29th, 2008
Description of Astrum Antivirus Pro and consequences of its residing on your PC
Astrum Antivirus Pro (Astrum AntivirusPro) has been created to replace AntivirusTrigger that has made too much noise and thus has miserable chances now to attract new victims of the trickery. Like its predecessor and like any other fake virus remover, Astrum Antivirus Pro [...]
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Published in December 24th, 2008
Description of SystemSecurity and consequences of its residing on your PC
SystemSecurity (System Security) may be considered as a typical concoction of hackers developing and promoting fake security tools which are at first installed in the free trial version and then demanded users to pay for the registration. Only one important peculiarity is this program is [...]
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Published in December 22nd, 2008
Description of Antivirus360 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Antivirus360 has two stages in its development, or this is rather applicable not to the program directly but to the scheme of its attack. Everything usually starts with download of trojan and ends with installation of Antivirus360 trialware. So what is Antivirus360? Is this fake [...]
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Published in December 19th, 2008
Description of Spyware Guard 2008 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Spyware Guard 2008 (also known and SpywareGuard2008) became popular at the end of September, 2008. The popularity had its basement in the well-developed network used by hackers to install this malware program. This observation of Spyware Guard 2008 was created at the mid [...]
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Published in December 18th, 2008
Description of PrivacyControl and consequences of its residing on your PC
PrivacyControl (Privacy Control) is often a number one threat for safety of computers and of no use for privacy protection. It is adverted through misleading banner ads and links leading to its sponsored web-pages where the rogue is available for download as trialware. Direct opening [...]
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Published in December 17th, 2008
Description of Trojan.generic and consequences of its residing on your PC
Trojans are illegitimate tools used by many applications to promote themselves. Trojan.generic (Generic Trojan) is a model of trojan popular in the year of 2008. Its main predestination is facilitation of fake security programs sales. However, this function is attached to trojans, also to the [...]
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Published in December 16th, 2008
Description of Vundo and consequences of its residing on your PC
Vundo (Vundo.Trojan, Trojan.Vundo) is the name of trojan engaged in nearly every second or third case of infection with malware. Vundo removal is a feature declared in description of practically any even simplest computer security tool; however, the declaration is not necessarily realized. It is [...]
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Published in December 15th, 2008
Description of Win32.Netsky.Q and consequences of its residing on your PC
Win32.Netsky.Q (Win32.Netsky.q, W32.Netsky.q, Win32/Netsky.Q) is another example of a thing that is real and fake at one time. Remove Win32.Netsky.q if you are really infected with this worm, but there is only one real opportunity to detect Win32.Netsky.q and it is to conduct free scan. [...]
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Published in December 14th, 2008
Description of MS Antispyware 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
There is a good hint of malicious nature of this program in the name of it. MS Antispyware 2009 is to guard a spy like a bodyguard is to guard a body. It is unlikely that anyone would like to have a program [...]
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Published in December 11th, 2008
Description of Antivirus 360 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Antivirus 360 or Antivirus360 is another program that applies tactic of trialware installation to the advertising purpose. The trialware plays a show pretending to represent free system scan with detection of suspicious objects. Once this fake scan is over, a user is suggested to [...]
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Published in December 10th, 2008
Description of System Booster 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
System Booster 2009 (SystemBooster 2009) represents less popular trend in the malware business. However, like in case of any other unnecessary program, we say remove System Booster 2009. The trend represented by SystemBooster 2009 is propagation of fake system optimizers (or one may [...]
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Published in December 9th, 2008
Description of WiniGuard and consequences of its residing on your PC
WiniGuard had been dark knight or rather rogue in darkness of malicious Internet sector until hackers trading with it started to apply trojan in its propagation, i.e. WiniGuard had been shadowed and lost among other application aiming to make users pay for the registration through [...]
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Published in December 8th, 2008
Description of Trojan.Zlob.G and consequences of its residing on your PC
Perfect Defender 2009, just like majority of fake virus removal tools, frightens users into buying the license for its full version using adware installed through various trickeries. The adware responsible for Perfect Defender 2009 pop-up and for scaring alerts generation are often different programs. The [...]
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