My Crappy Mind

November 10, 2008

HowTo: Get Rid of That Bogus XP Antivirus 2008

Filed under: HowTo, Virus — MindCrap @ 11:56 pm
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Nowadays, a very annoying crapware try to disguise itself as an antivirus or antispyware. Often goes by the name XP Antivirus 2008 or XP Antispyware 2008.

As far as I know, this thing doesn’t spread through USB or network sharing. Usually it’s the wrong click at the wrong website with the wrong browser (use FireFox :) )

If you are infected by it, in some variance, it wills annoyingly popup a virus warning that some terrifying gangs of monstrous program have infected your computer. The popup will showup at almost any click, especially in you open IE or explorer. (more…)

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