Beware of These 11 Rouge Antivirus Programs
Microsoft’s Malware protection website has published a list of 11 rouge antivirus programs that may harm your computer. All of these antivirus programs have different file names and directory structure but the purpose of all these program is same. some of Fake scan screen skins look similar to the Windows Security Center.
List of 11 Rouge Antivirus
- Micro Antivirus 2009
- MS Antivirus
- Spyware Preventer
- Vista Antivirus 2008
- Advanced Antivirus
- System Antivirus 2008
- Ultimate Antivirus 2008
- Windows Antivirus
- XPert Antivirus
- Power Antivirus
- Ultra Antivirus 2009
November 16th, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Sadly, so many users continue to be scammed by these rogues.
They are very good at getting unknowing users to install their products.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Yes, they are. some of the more “Hard Core” rouge programs are not listed, which many i had to manually destroy. one of which, Antivirus Pro 2009 (i beleive) or Antivirus 2009 virtually corrupted all of my files to the point of no return. my computer died 3 days later. then i had to reformat the whole system, wiping all of my personal files, games, music, and more. dont trust website kids, and always have multiple antivirus systems at the same time, not any single antivirus system is perfect, they all have flaws.