XP Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2008 and XP Antivirus 2009 are all part of the same family of rogue anti-spyware programs that all perform devious tactics when run or executed to get you to purchase the program. XP Antivirus, which is an older version of the programs mentioned above, performed an older method of creating registry entries so that the XP Antivirus program would find them on the system scan process. This was done to trick computer users and make them think that XP Antivirus is really finding “issues” on their computer. With the newer versions, XP Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2008 and XP Antivirus 2009, they do not create entries but instead displays erroneous results on a system scan where the parasite that it found is totally made up.

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Antivirus2008 is a ferocious rogue anti-spyware program that may come from Trojan infections such as Vundo Trojan or Zlob Trojan. Antivirus2008, if installed, performs system scans displaying erroneous results. Antivirus2008 bombards your computer with multiple popups or alert messages that state you are infected with a parasite. Antivirus2008 does this to scare computer users into purchasing the full licensed version of Antivirus2008. Do not ever trust Antivirus2008, it is not the same program as the well known Norton Antivirus2008. The hackers that made Antivirus2008 stole the name of a reputable program only to trick you. Antivirus2008 cannot be trusted.

Antivirus2008 may also be known on the internet as the following: Antivirus 2008, Antivirus2008, FraudTool.Win32.AntiVirus2008.j (Kaspersky), Rogue.Antivirus2008, Antivirus2008, Downloader.MisleadApp (Symantec), Win32/SillyDl.EMX (CA AV).

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