For stated throughout this website, there are many rouge fake antivirus. The Newest variant impacts Windows Systems and looks like it's a genuine antivirus program. The hackers took time to program all told from as is features that a real free antivirus would have. The most distressing is integration into the Windows Security Center. So, besides some rouge program alerting the user to a virus it seems as though the alert is actually coming from Windows. I believe this is the first time that a fake antivirus has been able to register itself into the Windows Security Center. Additionally, the program invites a registration key. The only way to get that key is to pay $49.99. One may ask what you get in return. Well you patten non working antivirus and you also get a trojan that steals your login information. Good deal!

The story does end out good for the consumer though. Microsoft frequently releases malware software tools patches. The newest for the week of June 10 includes signatures to automatically remove the fake antivirus after the program is installed ones computer. Therefore, it should only be a lot of days until all of the computer virus is annihilated.

The latest Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool could be download here

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