Friday, February 26, 2010

VIRUS: XP AntiVirus Pro (av.exe)

WARNING: XP AntiVirus Pro is actually a virus. It looks just like your Microsoft Security. It will tell you that your computer has many viruses and you need to upgrade it. DO NOT UPDATE IT. It will steal your credit card information. The support website exclusiveavsupport.com is also malicious. Please beware, because it also hacks your Windows security alerts and looks like the alerts are coming from Microsoft.

I do not yet know how to remove it, but do NOT use www.2-spyware.com (the first Google site under the search "XP AntiVirus Pro") because this site is also malicious. This virus must have just been made days ago, because there are no professional responses yet to remove it. What a scheme to make a virus that looks like a Microsoft program, and then to put all the removal tools on Google as additional malware.

If you have found any removal solutions, please post them below.

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