Reference: Fake Antiviral Software

rweberwright

In reference to JGray152's response to my inquiries:

From:

http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=675 :

AV360.exe - Antivirus 360 (AV 360) Virus Malicious File

AV360.exe is part of Antivirus 360, a fake antivirus program. To learn how to remove AV360.exe and Antivirus 360 all together, please consult our guide to remove Antivirus 360 by clicking HERE. This guide will provides you with a automatic and manual way to remove Antivirus 360.

Please consult the comments on that page for more helpful removal help. Antivirus 360 hopes to convince you to purchase their fake software by slowing down your computer with malicious tools and then constantly annoying you with popups. Again, to get help with removal of AV360.exe, please view our guide to remove Antivirus 360

Please Click Here To View Our Guide To Remove Antivirus 360

From: http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-35497-s...r-administrator

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JImmy, on Thursday March 5, 2009 05:44:23 PM

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Alright everybody. Check this out. I have read a lot of post about this virus, which has many names, and every single one of them do the same thing to one degree or another. It takes over you background, blocks you out of your administrator tools, wont let you access your task manager or run msconfig. I have also come across this virus in a flavor that does all this and deactivates you antivirus and wont let you install antivirus or spyware tools from websites or USB drives. Smart little ###### it is. After all the battling I have done with this virus, and lost by having to do a reinstall, I have finally found the solution without having to reinstall. For those of you who arent techs you will need a USB to IDE adapter kit we techs have which is inexspensive and another PC with Malewarebytes and Comodo Antivirus.

So heres the solution. Take out your hard drive. Slave to other PC using your adapter. It'll show up on the other PC as an external HD. Right click on the location and scan first using Malewarebytes, which is the best out there for removing any spyware, trojans, worm and adware. I dont care what anyone says. This program is the ######. Once it has scanned, remove all infections then scan with Comodo antivirus. Once it has removed all infections, reinstall your HD. Trust me. It'll run fine. Install Malewarebytes and Comodo on your PC and then run again.

You can thank me later when its running again.

Jimmy Miranda

Nectarcomputer.com

support@nectarcomputers.com

*/From: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic208833.html

hi all, hope someone can help me. i have this dreadfully irritating virus or trojan, i think it's come from a fake windows update. it has hijacked explorer and firefox so that when i try to go to a webite, it takes me to another page, or when i try and open another prgramme on pc, it crashes. i've run avg and firefox which keep saying they've found and quaranteed trojans and worms but it's still on my pc, and i can barely use it now. tried also to uninstall explorer but its not having that either :-( any suggestions please?

http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/index.php?showtopic=120291

FROM SOME DAYS I AM GETTING SOME FAKE WINDOWS FIREWALL POPUP . THEY ARE FAKE BAECAUSE I AM USING A*G INTERNET SECURITY 8.0 AND SO WINDOWS FIREWALL IS TURNED OFF.THE POPUP ASKS ME TO DOWNLOAD THE SECURITY SOFTWARE . SOME TIMES IT BECOME VERY IRRITATING WHEN I AM WATCHING MOVIES OR PLAYING GAMES AND THE POPUP SUDDENLY APPEARS . AFTER SEARCHING IN THIS FORUM I FIND OUT THAT HIJACK THIS WILL BE AN IMPORTANT TOOL TO RECOGNISE THIS PROBLEM . SO BELOW IS THE LOG FILE OF HIJACJK THIS.

DOES THIS LOG FILE INDICATES ANY OTHER SPYWARE OR VIRUS IN MY COMPUTER?

I WILL BE VERY THANKFUL TO THE LEARNED MEMBERS OF THIS FORUM.

rootkit

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

Run BitDefender Online Scan.

alexcrist

AVG has nothing to do with AV360, nor with any other fake antivirus.

Topic closed.