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Do Not Trust Antivirus Live

A program named Antivirus Live will but let its user believe it is aimed to protect their computer from lots of viruses and such. This name, like lots of others ones are those of a kind of viruses that will suggest something good while in fact will have a very bad behaviour once on your PC. They are also known as spyware. Each day, lots of PC are infected by such infection. Such spyware is not easy to identify neither to remove from your computer. Check here Remove Antivirus Live to learn how to remove Antivirus Live.

This malware will infect your PC using Trojans. It will then pretend to be some good antivirus program (trial version).This site virus removal has good info about virus removal while this one spyware protection will tell you how to remove spyware. With this apparent purpose, the application begins to scan your computer and during the process it creates, modifies and deletes files, the most important changes it makes being the following:

- Once it has infected your PC, this malware will modify the settings of your actual antivirus product. Doing so, Antivirus Live won’t let you detect it if you were to try to do that.

- This badware will let you believe it is doing a system scan of your computer and will show you a long list of viruses, worms and more that has infected your PC. In fact, all those viruses were created by Antivirus Live during that scan.

- Once the scan report is completed, Antivirus Live starts displaying pop ups and ads, with the purpose to strengthen users conviction that they need better protection for their computer. During that time, this malware will slow down your PC besides affecting its performance.

- Once it has done all the previous, this spyware will do something different: it will try to convince you to buy some online registered version saying only the full version can fix your PC from all those problems found.

The program is very insistent, as you can see in the description above, so one should be aware of the existence of such applications in order to be able to protect computers against them. So once you are aware your computer has been infected by Antivirus Live, there are automated tools to help you remove this threat.

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Posted Saturday, August 7th, 2010 by by IT Guru, under Computers.

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