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Antivirusmax.com

Posted: February 18, 2011

Antivirusmax.com is a malicious website that advertises harmful rogue products and attempts to download the 'MSIE FakeAV Notification Alert' malware onto your computer without your permission or knowledge. Antivirusmax.com may download this malware even if you only visit the Antivirusmax.com site briefly without any deliberate interaction on your part. Hijack-based browser redirected towards Antivirusmax.com are likely to be initiated by related rogue infections. Avoid giving any information or money to Antivirusmax.com since its rogue products only have harmful and deceptive functions that display erroneous errors on your system.

Hijacking and Other Accidental Exposures to Antivirusmax.com

Since all friendliness and ease of use on the Antivirusmax.com site is purely to mislead you into trusting Antivirusmax.com and giving money and personal info away, you should feel free to ignore the facade. Most users will first be exposed to Antivirusmax.com when a rogue product or other infection hijacks their browser. This can be an obvious and immediate redirection or a redirection concealed in a fake error message, a text link, or a full-page advertising. Even the briefest contact with Antivirusmax.com puts your computer in danger, since this website has been verified to attempt two separate drive-by downloads.
 
Contact with Antivirusmax.com should be responded to by rebooting your computer into Safe Mode and running scans with legitimate security software. Until then, you should view any errors with caution, since a common rogue product tactic is to install itself under the guise of an initial fake Windows taskbar error message.

The Rogue Product Antivirusmax.com Pushes

System Tool has absolutely no benefits for the system System Tool inhabits. Accidental or intentional installation of Antivirusmax.com's System Tool rogue product may result in various difficulties for your system besides the already highly-problematic browser hijack events. Known issues related to System Tool are:

  • Error messages that contain deceitful information about infections. System Tool will report these infections without actually checking the state of your computer.
  • Blocked access to programs essential to using your computer properly. Favored targets of System Tool and similar rogues are Windows Task Manager and all well-known anti-malware scanners. Another lying error message will usually be given to offer a flimsy excuse for the action.
  • Alteration of your desktop so that it may serve as yet another frivolous and inaccurate warning message.
  • Changes to your registry to allow System Tool to run without your permission every time you boot up Windows.

Deleting the Antivirusmax.com hijack infection, System Tool, and all malware with connections to either of these entities is absolutely required if you want your computer back in normal operating condition. Appeasing the infection will only result in additional harm to your system; don't be afraid to remove Antivirusmax.com's shoddy rogue products immediately.

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