AVXP08.com offers fake antivirus software?


I was working in my PC today when an adult site suddenly popped out of my screen. I had difficulty closing Porntube and a pop out message warned me that I may have spyware in my computer. The pop out message encouraged me to scan my PC using an antivirus XP software from AVXP08.com. AVXP08.com seems suspicious so I searched for more information about this Antivirus XP 2008 and here are some of the things that I have gathered from the world wide web.

According to a comment at McAfee site advisor, the AVXP08.com site offers a fake antivirus software which means that the link AntivirusXP2008Installer.exe that is downloaded when you click the scan your system for free now link may actually bring more harm to your PC.

An analysis from Virustotal.com also results in AntivirusXP2008Installer.0xeto be identified as follows:

  • Fraud tool (DR/FraudTool.XPAntivirus.MA.1 from AntiVir)
  • Adware ( Adware.XpAntivirus.AJ from BitDefender)
  • Trojan (Trojan.Peed.IG from ClamAV)

If you get to arrive to this avxp08.com site, make sure not to click or download anything. To remove avxp08.exe, delete it from the control panel but if it is not there do the following:

1. Launch the task manager by pressing ctrl + alt + del

2. Look for the avxp08.exe in the processes tab and press the end process button

3. Delete the avxp08 folder under c:\program files \

Or read this detailed instruction on how to get rid of the antivirus xp 2008 virus from yahoo answers.

screen shot of Fake antivirus software

Have you downloaded a fake antivirus from this site?

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2 Comments;

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    11:50 am on August 7th, 2008

    [...] AVXP08.com offers fake antivirus software? [...]

  2. wen MonsterID Icon wen
    9:27 am on August 27th, 2008

    I wished I had seen this article much much earlier.
    It happened to me just 2 days ago, and not so carefully as I should have, I did purchased it right the way by credit card. What happend me? My computer was dead one day later. I had to formate my computer. Now, I am so afraid of bening a potential ID theft victim.

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