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I am getting a pop up for antivirus that wants me to buy it. It is in my system tray and I can't remove it. I don't see it in Add/Remove Programs. I use McAfee and it didn't catch anything. It is called Antivirus 2008 XP and has an icon of a shield in red, green, yellow, and blue. I don't know a lot about computers but I can follow instructions. Please, please help me. Thanks in advance.
Sorry. I didn't read all the info. Will remove the link.
Maybe this one will help. Looks like a free removal tool.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/mal...
See also this thread from the Security forum.
http://www.computing.net/answers/se...Goin' Fishin' (Some day)
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I ran MBAM as directed and it all seems to be gone. Thanks very much for the help. Is there anything else I need to do? Sally
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It sounds like Antivirus 2008 XP is one of a few legitimate antivirus programs that use frowned upon methods to try to get you to scan you computer with it and then possibly buy it.
Another one I've seen lately is IE Antivirus 3.0, or 3.2, or 3.3 (it has been updated to avoid being detected by anti-malware programs several times in the past few months).
The McAfee software obviously doesn't presently detect Antivirus 2008 XP, but it might eventually.
Until then, you are vulnerable to getting it again.
To prevent you getting it again, you could trying searching the web using:
remove Antivirus 2008 XP, or similar.
Some of the "hits" will say their product finds it and removes it automatically - some of it may be freeware - try using the latter if you can.
E.g. the free AdAware 2008 might find it, but it does not run until you select it, and it does not update itself automatically, so you must update it whenever you want to scan the computer.However, don't run two anti-malware programs that are supposed to do the same thing if they both have modules that run all the time (are resident).
E.g. the free AdAware 2008 can be run with most other anti-malware software that has a resident module running; something such as SpyBot which has a resident module may interfere and clash with other anti-malware software if it has a resident module.
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"I use McAfee and it didn't catch anything"
Consider dumping McAfee as soon as it expires. Replace it with one of the freebies such as AVG or Avast.
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AVG free 8.x doesn't find IE Antivirus 3.0, or 3.2, or 3.3 - it may not find Antivirus 2008 XP either.
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AV`s will not find this variant because its malware. It disables the use of Spybot and popular anti-spyware apps aswell as restricting your browsing to av2008 removal sites.
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CCNA VCP3
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AVG free 8.x is both anti-virus and anti-spyware, but it doesn't catch some stuff other anti-spyware does.
IE Antivirus does no real harm - but it does install stuff without your permission and is difficult to get to stop producing nagging pop-ups and is difficult to remove manually, until you have bought the program. It's more scamware than malware. Similar may apply to Antivirus 2008 XP.
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Its precise classification is a moot point. The bottom line is its malicious software that re-spawns and creates numerous entires all over your windows installation and in the registry, modifying the users profile and reminding them incessantly with a number of spurious AV entries that they need to purchase there software.As i have already said AV`s only scan for virus`s and some popular variants of spyware. But there generally not able to detect malware/greware & spyware.
MCSE MCSA:messaging MCP MCTS CSSA ITILv2
CCNA VCP3
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