A Serious System Threat

We have recently had calls from several clients who have fallen victim to a sofware rogue that seriously impacts your abilty to do productive work on your computers. The rogue is named with Anti-Virus 2008 or Anti-Virus 2009.

On first blush, the product looks very "official". Victims most often think their system (or the Windows Security features) is telling them they have an infestation that needs to be addressed. So the computer gives permission, opens the door and waits for whatever happens. And what's likely to happen is NOT good.

Once in your system, manually getting rid of the thing is almost an impossible task. It's a multi-step process that requires manually deleting files, editing the registry and other nasties that casual users should not consider.

We've found one product that does a very good job unless Windows has really been damaged; and that product is SpyHunter. We recommend it highly. You can download it free and run it to determine if your machine is infected; but you must pay the $29.99 and register it before you can use it clean your PC.

The best solution though is to not put your machine at risk in the first place.