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Virus Melts

Posted: April 21, 2009

Virus Melts, also known as VirusMelts, is another money-stealing rogue anti-spyware application from the family. Through the use of dangerous and malicious software, bogus security alerts and pop-ups bombard your system in order to scare you into buying and installing Virus Melts in order to clean and protect your PC.

However, once you have downloaded and installed Virus Melts, this tricky rogue anti-spyware will be configured to automatically begin scanning your computer and displaying dozens of fake infections on your system, in order to panic you enough so that you will eventually buy the "full version" of Virus Melts, which does absolutely nothing for your computer, except perhaps slowing it down and causing computer crashes. Problems you ended up paying good money for.

So whatever you do, do NOT fall for this scare tactics and aggressive advertising methods. Remove Virus Melts as soon as possible.
Among Virus Melts clones are

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %desktopdirectory%\virus melt.lnk
    2 %programs%\virus melt.lnk
    3 %startmenu%\virus melt.lnk
    4 update2.exe
    5 virus melt.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{3f2bbc05-40df-11d2-9455-00104bc936ff}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\vmelt.dochostuihandler
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