Carl runs a site devoted to helping you rid your computer from all sorts of spyware and malware at http://www.spyzooka.com/
It’s always important to be very careful in today’s internet world where surfing the internet and downloading free software is more popular than ever. With a lot of this free software Trojans can piggyback on the program and then it silently installs antivirus2008 pro onto your computer without your consent. If you fall into their trap, not only will you be down $50 (the price of a subscription) but you will also find yourself in a bigger mess than you could have ever anticipated. Antivirus2008pro will attempt to run a fraudulent scan on your computer and then will give you false results to scare you into paying $50 to buy their protection. However, instead you will find your computer flooded with popups and system notifications warning of nonexistent infections. This doesn’t even take into account the terrible system performance you will notice on your computer. Antivirus2008pro will use up so much of your CPU throwing the popups and system notifications that the only benefit you will see will be very slow performance.
If you find that your wallpaper has suddenly changed or that you have some new random icons on your desktop there is a good chance that you have antivirus2008pro. You can take the following steps to remove it manually:
Kill these processes:
Antvrs.exe
Antivirus2008Pro.exe
Press Alt+Ctrl+Delete -->Task Manager. Select the Image Names below under the “Processes” tab and then click on “End Process”
Delete these registries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAntivirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun”Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%Antivirus 2008 ProAntvrs.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAntivirus
Go to Start --> Run --> Type “regedit”. Delete the files listed above
Unregister these DLLs:
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
To unregister go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Delete these files:
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
Antvrs.exe
Antivirus2008Pro.exe
The warning here is that it’s never a good idea to manually remove programs like these yourself. The best bet is to invest in a trusted antispyware program that can keep programs like this off of your computer. It’s a small investment to make to help protect yourself from identity theft and many other problems you could come across by having a program like this installed on your computer. Many programs like antivirus2008pro can track your every move while they reside on your computer. They can capture your credit card information, user name and password and much more personal information. Then they sell this private data to hackers who will use it for their own illegal benefit. By having a trusted spyware on your computer you will be notified anytime a Trojan tries to silently install something on your computer. Ordinarily you may be blindsided by an install like that but with an antispyware it will be constantly monitoring your system and watching for things like this.
There are plenty of options available to you today but you have to make the effort to do some research and find one with a good reputation that will protect you from thieves like antivirus2008pro.
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