Anti-virus software

[cluless]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had heard of an anti virus software called "anti-virus professional 2009" at www.anti-virus-professional.com someone asked me about it but I can't find anything on it. I told them not to install it without checking it out first.

[Train]

Antivirus’09 (formerly known as Antivirus 2009), also known as Home Antivirus 2009, Antivirus Pro 2009 or Antivirus 2009 Pro, is a series of rogue antispyware application that created to ruin the integrity of our computing experience. Antivirus 2009 is fake and malicious, with the intent of screwing up your computers. Antivirus 2009 is a clone of the infamous Antivirus 2008. It is somewhat ironic to see a fake antivirus application got upgraded. Guess we are living in an usual world and nothing really surprises us anymore. Generally, Antivirus 2009 usually comes up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. Antivirus 2009 normally generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so end-users will be tricked into purchase Antivirus 2009.

http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-remo...l-instructions

Congratulations, you did that party a BIG favor.

[Midknyte]

Antivirus Pro 2008 was malware, so I would expect 2009 to be the same.

Why don't you just install Avira or Avast or one of the other recommended AVs?

[cluless]

I had told them to download avast but they were already installing antivirus 2009 and now they are having problems. If they do a system restore for 2 or 3 days ago will that take care of it?

[Midknyte]

they were already installing antivirus 2009 and now they are having problems

Probably not. Time to open up a thread in Viruses/Trojans/Spyware and let Broni take a whack at it.

[cluless]

Sent that to them and hope they can figure it out. I told then to never install anything they weren't sure of. As a rule I research everything before I install it. Thanks for the help.