System Defender and Other Rogue Antiviruses on the rise.

Rogue Antiviruses are actually a Virus themselves. Youer surfing along and you get a "system" alert saying a spyware operation is in progress, click ok to start System Defender. Then you got some seemingly windows security tool telling you everything is a virus and blocking you from doing anything at all. These are designed to do one thing get you to buy thier tool, that never activates even after you give them your credit card. Yeah, thats right, it is your credit card numbers they are after. If you get a box like this

 

Then DO NOT CLICK ON IT, it is the method of infection, instead just shut down and reboot, even if you have to just use the power button. It is safer to hard boot the computer than to install that virus. In the last week i have seen more than just a few of these cases now.

Now it is not like I dont mind the work, if it was not for things like this I would have less, but i hate having the cussing from the customer when they find out that no anti-virus software will clean or prevent this one yet. It is propigated by user error and designed to get your credit card number and wreak havoc until it does. It is not a browser exploit or system flaw, it is just that mean and nasty.

You do not want any form of this program, I have removed successfully every copy over the last 2 years I have seen of it but one, and that was on a cash register at a restaurant. The reason I could not remove it was the system would not allow me to boot into safe mode. So if you do get this or a variation of it, you need an experience expert because it has to be manually removed.

Steven Young
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