MS Antivirus 2008

MS Antivirus 2008 Description



ScreenshotMS 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.
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The links on the fake warning messages lead to a rogue website where you’ll be convinced to download the a trial version of MS Antivirus 2008.

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)


Is your PC infected with MS Antivirus 2008? To safely & quickly detect MS Antivirus 2008, we highly recommend you run the malware scanner listed below.




Technical Details

Visual & GUI Characteristics

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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.

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.
  • 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
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5 Comments

  • mike says:

    Does anyone know where this company promoting this malware is located? I would like to contact them.

  • mary anne says:

    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

  • kristen says:

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is the only thing that helped and SpyHunter3 was the only program that found eveything!!!

  • ric barbaza says:

    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

  • Art says:

    Great stuff. Removed MS Antivirus + some other bad programs. Thanks a lot.

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