Just like such programs as XP Defender, Vista Antivirus, and AntiSpyCheck, Antivirus 008 is anything but what it claims to be.

These programs are all a kind of malware called fraudware. They masquerade as anti-virus or anti-spyware programs in an attempt to trick the honest user into spending money on an “upgraded” version.

Often these programs will display a screen asking if you want to download the product. It poses as a free or trial version of the “real thing” that you can try out. But sometimes these programs will load themselves through holes in your browser security, without your knowledge. Seeing a program on your computer that you didn’t even download is the first sign that it shouldn’t be there.

No matter how it gets onto your computer, it will soon start displaying alert windows. It will claim that you have an infection on your computer. It ever-so-helpfully provides a link to help take care of your problem. But once you click it, then your system becomes fully infected!

Antivirus 2008 will often do things like changing your background and screensaver. Even worse, it may lock your homepage, display many pop-up ads, overwrite your admin privileges, and disable basic functions or programs like Display Properties and Task Manager.

It does all of this in an attempt to con you into buying the “upgraded” version of this product.

But what’s worse is that this can act as a gateway to secretly downloading unwanted files, stealing your passwords and even your credit card information!

Even if it doesn’t steal your personal information, the Antivirus 2008 Trojan and its variations can effectively lock you out of most essential computer functions. It can then run several rogue anti-spyware programs in a loop, in order to get you to pay for fake protection.

Buying the “solution” will fix the infection for a short period of time. Unfortunately, Antivirus 008 won’t leave your computer. Instead, it will hide inside your hard drive and continue to release new files into your system.

A few days after buying the “full” version of Antivirus 2008, your computer will again be infected! This is the fraudware’s creators’ way of conning you into buying one piece of fake anti-virus software after another!

What can you do about this? Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to get rid of this malicious software by hand. Good anti-spyware or Anti-virus programs might possibly do the trick. But sadly, Antivirus 2008 and its related programs often fly under the radar of many of the most popular anti-virus solutions.

One of the best things to do is find a good security program that can scan your whole system and report its findings to a “home base” on the web. This “home base” can in turn analyze the data sent and let you know if you’ve got a problem, where other programs often don’t.

No matter what you do, the important thing is to get Antivirus 2008 taken care of quickly–and not by buying its “paid” version!

When you come across Xpert Antivirus, you may be fooled by its charm.  You need to be aware of what this program actually is.  This program is a rogue anti-spyware program that will pretend to be helpful, but is actually only around to do harm to you and your computer.

These rogue anti- spyware rograms will pretend to be able to scan and remove malicious software (malware) but in reality they cannot do either of these functions.  Such rogue anti- spyware rograms are only able to give you malware that will slow down your computer and possibly rob you of your personal information, including your credit card numbers.  With all of this said, when you see Xpert Antivirus you may not have had any idea that such trouble was brewing.

Xpert Antivirus ill appear as a pop-up, and once it does, it will warn you that you are at risk for malware.  Please note that computer programs cannot know much of anything about your computer unless they have been downloaded onto your system, so Xpert Antivirus is just trying to get you to believe that it knows something you do not.

Once you are warned about the potential malware problem, Xpert Antivirus ill offer you a free scan of your computer to be sure.  If you have bought into this, you will always get the free scan.  We all love free, especially if it is for the safety of our computer.  However, clicking “Ok” on this free scan will allow the program the access it needs to download itself onto your computer without your knowledge.

The results of the scan will typically be a list of your temporary files.  Xpert Antivirus will tell you that these files are corrupt and need to be removed—it classifies them as malware.  However, these files are not corrupt.  If you have just one malware program on your computer it will hard for your operating system to run, so if you had as many corrupt files as Xpert Antivirus claims that you do, then your computer would not be running at all.  This scan is a false indicator of any type of malware problem you may be facing.

However, the purpose of this free scan is to gain access to download Xpert Antivirus malware onto your computer, and then to persuade you into purchasing the full version of the program to remove the so-called “malware” that the program has found.  Then the real malware will continue to try to record your personal information from your computer and use it to make more of a profit off of you.

To rid yourself of this malware, you need to contact an expert in dealing with these types of programs.  Xpert Antivirus is very sneaky and will try to linger as long as it can to make maximum profit off of you.  However, if you find a company that offers you a great guarantee on their services, you can rest assured that your malware problem will be taken care of.

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