Monday, June 29, 2009

Fake Anti-Spyware & Anti-Virus Programs

In the past you have almost only protect your computer from viruses and worms. Could just as easy ... there are now many more enemies that lurk on your computer to disrupt and damage. The most worrying is that anti-virus and anti-spyware programs also could be falsified. This rogue scareware true or are becoming a pest.

Fake Anti-Virus and Anti Spyware Programs
It is sometimes known by everyone that there is suddenly a pop-up advertising will appear. This is usually not so bad and can be a pop-up blocker to be resolved. But if more sites can be visited or your virus scanner does not and your computer indicating that Windows has found spyware is something wrong.

The message you get is usually whether you want to remove spyware now. Of course you want this (so you can surf through good) and you press' Ok '. Fantastic: a good program (for example, 2010 or XP Antivirus Micro Antivirus 2009) download and install it. The titles of these programs give a reliable impression, but appearances are deceiving here.

Removing spyware and viruses represents scam
The programs work well and just after they've run, you see indeed that many adware, malware and spyware are found. With the click of a button "delete" opens a new web page which asks you to pay to remove the spyware. Do absolutely not! This is almost certainly a fake anti-spyware program and payment is the spyware is not removed. Perhaps so, since they the customer in a subsequent scan again able to pay.

A typical example of fraud in practice this is so. There are probably tens of millions of computers infected by such rogue true or scareware. There are always people who believe in this report, which highlight this practice is so lucrative, more and more programs on the market with the most innocent names. That the following list before.

List of fake anti-Virus and Spyware programs:

* Advanced Anti-Virus
* Many false
* Many false
* Advanced Privacy Guard
* Advanced Privacy Suite
* Andromeda AntiVirus
* AntiMalware 2009
* Did Antimalware
* AntiMalware Suite
* AntiSpyControl
* AntiSpyware Pro XP
* Antispyware XP 2008
* Antivir64
* Antivirus 2010
* Antivirus Lab 2009
* Antivirus Protection
* AntivirusDoc
* Cleaner2009
* Content Eraser
* EAntivirusPro
* Internet Antivirus
* Micro Antivirus 2009
* MS Antivirus (2008)
* PC Virus Less
* PersonalAntiSpy
* Power Antivirus 2009

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