Rapid Antivirus
Posted: October 10, 2008
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 38 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | March 19, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Rapid Antivirus, or RapidAntivirus, is a fake anti-spyware program that uses fake system messages as a scare tactic. Rapid Antivirus is a clone of Power Antivirus 2009, Antivirus 2009, Vista Antivirus 2009 and Antivir64.
Rapid Antivirus attempts to get computer users to believe that they must purchase the full version of Rapid Antivirus to "fix" their computer. Rapid Antivirus may come from a Trojan infection or a malicious website. Rapid Antivirus may be difficult to manually remove in some cases. It is recommended that you detect and remove Rapid Antivirus with a good spyware scan and removal tool.
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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:install_710_MHw0MXwxMDEwMDAwMDAwfHx8fHx8fHw_[1].exe
File name: install_710_MHw0MXwxMDEwMDAwMDAwfHx8fHx8fHw_[1].exeSize: 968.7 KB (968704 bytes)
MD5: 03914c3bea8d1747409d9828df0d5c75
Detection count: 95
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
install_5849_MHw0MXwwfHx8fHx8fHw_.exe
File name: install_5849_MHw0MXwwfHx8fHx8fHw_.exeSize: 760.37 KB (760376 bytes)
MD5: feb19729f3654b173a17911f8d0f88f7
Detection count: 73
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
setup.exe
File name: setup.exeSize: 969.21 KB (969216 bytes)
MD5: cd9f41e69feffadbccda40bfbb0e340f
Detection count: 60
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
Rapid Antivirus.exe
File name: Rapid Antivirus.exeSize: 704 KB (704000 bytes)
MD5: 6ec4e0aa294d0642d2ee9263208db38d
Detection count: 31
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
0000005377.exe
File name: 0000005377.exeSize: 701.95 KB (701952 bytes)
MD5: d85f35ce99ed9ccbd419ffdd78c6a555
Detection count: 6
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
I wa searching for lyrics on yahoo. I clicked a link, that I believe lead to a metrolyrics database for Tokio Hotel. I don't know if the site itself is malicious or what but now it's too late. I'm on my parents computer looking up away to get rid of Rapid Antivirus. It really did fool me. The way the pop up balloon worked. Like a fool, I played in to it, now my screen is distorted and nothings working liek it should. Also, there are adult themed icons on my desktop now. I'm really upset, I've done a great job up until now of keeping my PC healthy. I knew I needed to end it, I went to task manager and hit end process on an application named ~ , bingo. It didn't do anything ofcourse. I was able to find out it had put itself in System32, and is unable to be deleted(ofcourse) and is probably in other files. I don't have any money of my own to purchase this to remove it, what can I do? Will I have to stay with this on my computer?