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What is Rogue Antivirus and How To Remove It
Rogue Anti-virus applications are being produced in ever increasing numbers each week now. Why? This is a scam that works big time! Rogue Anti-Virus scams are able to steal money, credit card numbers and sometimes entire identities.
Below you can see the life cycle of a Rogue Anti-Virus scam.
1. You get infected with a […]
Remove Vundo and Virtumonde Using Free Software
Virtumonde is a pernicious Adware Trojan that is usually installed into your windows pc (Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista) via an outdated Java Runtime Environment. Vundo, also known as Virtumonde and Virtumondo creates random letter DLL’s in C:windowssystem32 (tyeyavv.dll for example) that inject themselves into the winlogon.exe process as well as the […]
Prevent Malware with User Account Control
User Account Control (UAC) was introduced in Windows Vista as way to control administrative access to programs and settings while logged in as an administrator.
Now, that may sound sort of weird if you come from the corporate world of system administration using Windows NT, 2000 or XP. Under these operating systems (nt, 2000, xp) […]
How To Make a Bootable AntiVirus Disc
Why Bootable Antivirus?
In a bootable environment we are running a stripped down version of windows in a ram disk (programs are loaded directly into ram), thus the hard drive on the PC is treated as attached storage (like a flash drive).
In this state malware (malware consists of viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, rootkits, etc) […]
