phony anti virus program on lower right hand corner

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by noknow, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. noknow

    noknow Private E-2

    It's called XP Antivirus 2008 and doesn't show up on the control panel. It comes with an ersatz Microsoft logo which is how I was tricked into downloading it. I was able to get in in the recycle bin but deleting it fromthere doesn't delete it.
     
    noknow, Mar 29, 2008
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    Please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

    After these are attached our malware experts will review these to see if your OK, if not they will issue you some further removal instructions, So logs that you will get to attach are:

    MGlogs.zip (which has 5 logs inside it, including Hijackthis, just attach the whole Zip )
    MalwareBytes log
    Superantispyware log
     
    DavidGP, Mar 30, 2008
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