Virus Doctor
Virus Doctor Description
Virus Doctor is a rogue anti-virus program that prefers to give out inaccurate information during its checkups, with a methodology that involves randomly-created fake alerts and fraudulent system scans in an attempt to make you drop a little money at Virus Doctor’s website (last known to be virus-doctor.com). While Virus Doctor is an elderly example of fake anti-virus software due to its origin in 2009, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers find that Virus Doctor is still worth noting for being the founder of a growing family of fake anti-virus scanners; a family that’s receiving new additions up to the current day. Virus Doctor should be easily removable by any type of reasonably competent anti-malware product, although you may be forced to deal with browser redirect attacks and attacks against unrelated programs until you’ve completely deleted Virus Doctor.Why a Check-In with Virus Doctor Will Leave Your PC Four Times as Sickly as the Norm
Virus Doctor expertly imitates the appearance of an anti-virus and general security product and claims to offer automatic updates, firewall monitoring, general malware protection and all the other features that you could want from a good anti-malware application. However, Virus Doctor can easily afford to offer all of these features, since each of them is fraudulent, and Virus Doctor itself has no detectable ability to scan your PC for threats or remove any form of malicious software. As far as Virus Doctor’s criminal developers are concerned, the finish line for this arrangement is your bank account, as Virus Doctor is dedicated to convincing you to spend money on its software for the removal of hallucinatory viruses and other PC threats.
SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend that you do exactly the opposite of whatever Virus Doctor recommends until you’re able to remove Virus Doctor with a real anti-malware application.
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An unauthorized program has been prevented from accessing your PC.#Port:433 from 92.11.127.10
An unidentified program-potentially: %ThreatPath% #malicious and able to modify system files- has been prevented from getting installed on your PC.s
(Port scan detected at port %portnumber%.
9Process %Process%# attempted to change the address space.
An unidentified program tries to access your computer
Giving Virus Doctor a Taste of Its Own Medicine
Virus Doctor has been found to use Hosts file changes that allow Virus Doctor to redirect you to other sites, with a distinctive preference for using Google-based redirects. Virus Doctor-promoted websites, such as 4-open-davinci.com and getantivirusplusnow.com, should also be considered just as harmful to your PC as Virus Doctor’s own site. SpywareRemove.com malware analysts have also noticed Virus Doctor using Windows Registry changes to attack other programs, especially security and anti-malware products that could remove Virus Doctor. Accordingly, complete removal of Virus Doctor may be impossible until you disable Virus Doctor via a removable drive-based boot, a boot into Safe Mode or other methods that are commonly used to shut down PC threats.
As the originator of the Rogue.VirusDoctor family, Virus Doctor is well-aged and should be detectable and deletable by any reasonably competent brand of anti-malware product. However, related PC threats that can install Virus Doctor may also install other rogue anti-virus programs from its family, such as Windows Threats Destroyer, Windows Attacks Defender, Windows Malware Sleuth, Windows Attacks Preventor, Windows Personal Detective, Windows Trojans Inspector, Windows Firewall Constructor, Windows Personal Doctor and Windows PRO Scanner. Due to this risk, you should always make sure that your entire PC is disinfected while you deal with a Virus Doctor attack instead of just trying to target and delete Virus Doctor without going through an in-depth scan of your PC.
Aliases
Fraudtool.VirusDoctor.A [VirusBuster]Win32.Adware.VirusDoctor [VBA32]VirusDoctor [Sunbelt]Adware/VirusDoctor [Panda]Win32/Adware.VirusDoctor [NOD32]Riskware.Fake.VDoctor.1 [McAfee-GW-Edition]potentially unwanted program Generic!Artemis [McAfee+Artemis]not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.VirusDoctor.a [Kaspersky]Non-Virus: [K7AntiVirus]not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.VirusDoctor [Ikarus]
More aliases (19)
Virus Doctor Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)
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Technical Details
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 %AppData%\Virus Doctor 658 2 VDocd201.exe 621 3 Virus Doctor.lnk 396 4 VirusDoctor[1].exe 28 5 VDoctor.exe N/A
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\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Virus Doctor_is1HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}Virus Doctor
Additional Information
- The following cookies were detected:
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Posted: February 3, 2009 | By SpywareRemove
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