Antimalware Doctor

Antimalware Doctor Description

Antimalware Doctor is a rogue anti-malware scanner that imitates Microsoft products to gain the user’s trust. However, Antimalware Doctor’s actual functions are entirely malevolent. Antimalware Doctor will generate inaccurate error messages and scan results in an attempt to encourage the user to buy Antimalware Doctor’s full version, which is just as undesirable. Antimalware Doctor may spread by Trojans and other dishonest means as well as through direct downloads. The rogue product Antimalware Doctor has absolutely no positive traits associated with it and should be deleted as an infection no better for your computer than a Trojan.

Details of the Unsavory ‘Doctor’

Antimalware Doctor joins many other rogue anti-malware products in having a likely origin in Russia, which necessitates an extra layer of caution when dealing with Russian file sources. The rogue product Antimalware Doctor is a bit less new than some, being a 2010 infection, but Antimalware Doctor remains new enough that updates may be required if you want your security software to catch Antimalware Doctor before it infects your computer. Signs of Antimalware Doctor may include, but aren’t restricted to some of the common rogue anti-malware product behaviors listed here:

The alteration of your registry to allow Antimalware Doctor to run prior to Windows displaying your desktop.

In addition to being , regardless of whether you wish it to be or not, Antimalware Doctor may take precedence over your desktop and insist on a scanning activity before normal computer use can resume.
Falsified scan results. Antimalware Doctor has no anti-malware functions, since all of its results are determined independently of your system’s actual condition. This makes sitting through Antimalware Doctor’s scanning an utter waste of your time.
Even after the scan is finished, Antimalware Doctor is likely to continue to bother you with error messages after error messages. These hold no more validity than the scanning results, and attempts by Antimalware Doctor to frighten you with serious-sounding infection reports should be treated with contempt.
Antimalware Doctor may also redirect your browser to its own website or other malicious ones. Using your browser while Antimalware Doctor or other rogue anti-spyware software is installed is likely to be challenging at best and dangerous at worst.

Treat Antimalware Doctor Like Any Other Malware

Under no circumstances is paying for Antimalware Doctor justified, since the infection will continue to harm your computer and registry will not make deleting Antimalware Doctor any easier. Antimalware Doctor has been reported to be bundled with other kinds of malware, so one should be ready to scan one’s entire system for all possible infections as well as close any newly-opened security holes. Popular brands of anti-malware scanners will usually be able to counteract infections like Antimalware Doctor, but deleting Antimalware Doctor isn’t something to put off even if you’re sure you can handle its negative effects on your system.

Aliases

SHeur3.ABVK [AVG]Dropper/Fraudrop.1051136.D [AhnLab-V3]Trojan/Win32.FrauDrop.gen [Antiy-AVL]TrojanDropper.FrauDrop.iq [Jiangmin]Artemis!E4C053ED084A [McAfee-GW-Edition]Trojan-Dropper.Win32.FrauDrop.atf [Kaspersky]Win32.GenVariant.Tds [eSafe]W32/Suspicious_Gen2.AZGLV [Norman]W32/Trojan2.DMR [F-Prot]Artemis!DF4DC4435480 [McAfee]

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