MS Antivirus 2008
MS Antivirus 2008 Description
MS Antivirus 2008, also known as MSAntivirus 2008 and a clone of XP Antivirus 2008, is a rogue anti-spyware program. You may have downloaded MS Antivirus 2008 thinking it would solve your spyware issues, or it may have infected your computer with the help of Trojan Zlob or Vundo usually found bundled with fake video codecs.Once you’re infected with Zlob, it will use aggressive advertising methods to push it’s rogue website and sell its product, claiming to be able to clean your computer from spyware. Zlob’s deceptive methods include: fake warning alert popups and system notification messages in the Taskbar.
MS Antivirus 2008 is able to emulate a system scan and report a list of supposed infections to scare you and to push you into buying the full MS Antivirus 2008 version. This approach is to lead you to believe that you’re infected with a load of spyware, when, in reality, is MS Antivirus 2008 the cause of the spyware. MS Antivirus 2008 is able to emulate a system scan and report a list of supposed infections to scare you and to push you into buying the full MS Antivirus 2008 version. MS Antivirus 2008 may launch on every Windows startup.
Aliases
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.CodecPack (v) [Sunbelt]Mal/EncPk-HW [Sophos]Trojan.LooksLike [McAfee-GW-Edition]Generic Dropper.cx [McAfee]Crypt.EXN [AVG]Trojan.FakeSecSen.DA [VirusBuster]Adware.MSAntivirus.R.412160 [ViRobot]TROJ_FAKEAV.JD [TrendMicro]Aplicacion/MSAntivirus.t [TheHacker]Troj/FakeVir-FL [Sophos]
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MS Antivirus 2008 Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)
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What happens if MS Antivirus 2008 does not let you open SpyHunter or blocks the Internet?
Technical Details
Visual & GUI Characteristics
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read
the tutorials on how to find malware,
kill unwanted processes,
remove malicious DLLs and
delete other harmful files. Always be
sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
- The following files were created in the system:
# File Name Detection Count 1 MSXSetup[1].exe 689 2 MSA.exe 513 3 MS Antivirus.lnk 403 4 MSASetup[1].exe 389 5 MSA.cpl 330 6 MSx.exe 227 7 MSXSetup.exe 183 8 MSX.cpl 145 9 MSAntivirus.lnk 73 10 msa.exe 7
More files
Registry Modifications
Tutorial: To edit and delete registry entries manually, read the tutorial on
how to remove malicious registry entries.
Tip & Warning: Editing and removing the wrong registry keys can severely damage your PC, so remember to backup your Windows Registry! To optimize your Windows Registry and speed up your PC, download RegHunter's registry cleaner.
Tip & Warning: Editing and removing the wrong registry keys can severely damage your PC, so remember to backup your Windows Registry! To optimize your Windows Registry and speed up your PC, download RegHunter's registry cleaner.
- The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}ColdWare
Additional Information
- The following cookies were detected:
msscanner
Posted: August 21, 2008 | By SpywareRemove
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Does anyone know where this company promoting this malware is located? I would like to contact them.
does the system restore thing deletes any data from your computer (such as formatting?) sorry for asking but i better ask bec i need to keep all data and programs i have
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is the only thing that helped and SpyHunter3 was the only program that found eveything!!!
Thank you very much for this information(even though at this point in time the info is relatively higly technical for me to grasp; and, I’m learning). You’re doing a great service to us – the general public consumer! More power & acknowledgement to you! Appreciating you, Ric
Great stuff. Removed MS Antivirus + some other bad programs. Thanks a lot.