Tuesday, April 8, 2008

XP Antivirus 2008...Sounds Great!...Guess Again

I recently discovered a brand new Malware/Spyware.
While checking a machine, XP Antivirus 2008 popped up and told me the computer was infected with several types of spyware programs.
This was interesting because I had never heard of XP Antivirus 2008. As it turns out, this is just one of the latest attempts by the spyware producers to fool you the user. This program is actually spyware itself.
There are detailed and somewhat complex instructions on the web for removing it.

So, don't be fooled, this is not an add on for XP, it is not something that was added via Windows Updates, if you have XP Antivirus 2008 on your machine, you have a problem and it needs to be removed.
Give us a call, we'll get rid of it for you.

Tom