A community portal about Spyware with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Spyware is computer software that collects personal information about users without their informed consent. The term, coined in 1995 but not...
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A community portal about Spyware with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Spyware is computer software that collects personal information about users without their informed consent. The term, coined in 1995 but not widely used for another five years, is often used interchangeably with adware and malware.
“Your computer is infected” is a notorious pop-up generated by various fake spyware removers; it looks pretty convincing, because it is generated from the desktop toolbar. However, you need to remove “Your computer is infected” alert source, certain malware application, instead of following cunning suggestion of that pop-ups to “use special malware tool to prevent data loss”. To get rid of “Your computer is infected” pop-up means to get rid of related malware that produces it. Click here to... Read Full Story
Description of Rapid Antivirus and consequences of its residing on your PC
Rapid Antivirus (RapidAntivirus) is another crude and primitive fake malware remover propagated using methods of shadowed downloading. This rogue may be installed without your notification by Zlob or Vundo trojans. Disabling this program you do not render it harmless, total deletion of all its files and registry entries is required to remove Rapid Antivirus effectively. Click here for free detection of malware and to... Read Full Story
A recent article of mine has proven very popular. It discussed the recent epidemic of “rogue” antivirus and anti-spyware programs that is plaguing the Internet these days — such as Virus Response Lab 2009, Antivirus XP, and — literally — hundreds of others.
These programs are really the tools used by cyber-criminals to infect your machine with malware… not clean it up, as you’re led to believe. (The article link [above] has a video demonstrating a rogue program.) As a bonus, you’re asked to... Read Full Story
Description of XP Antispyware 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Remove XP Antispyware 2009 immediately, if infected. This software is not just very popular and incapable to provide any protection for your computer and remove existing threats; it is also very unsafe application.
The way XP Antispyware 2009 enters your PC is already a reason for some system disordering as the rogue customizes your system as though your PC should serve XP Antispyware 2009 but not you. For... Read Full Story
InternetAntivirusPro, or Internet Antivirus Pro was released at the beginning of October, 2008. This is the fake remover concocted by notorious Russian malware developers to get fast profit. Just look at its poor web-site impression to make sure the motto of these “software developer” is not to produce application for ages but just to trick users into buying rot things like this one. Removal of Internet Antivirus Pro is essential for your PC stability and safety. Unless you get rid of... Read Full Story
