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- iHeartCamels, on 01/08/2009, -6/+972It wasn't immediately apparent, until I noticed the toolbars
- leitey, on 01/08/2009, -9/+617I've heard horror stories about that "Antivirus 2009". It's malware posing as a legitimate antivirus program, and almost impossible to get rid of.
- FlyingCaveman, on 01/08/2009, -8/+503Hey, this guy is selling a computer with antivirus 2009 pre installed http://sacramento.craigslist.org/sys/983007600.htm ...
Thanks! - MelvinSchlubman, on 01/08/2009, -25/+435http://www.malwarebytes.org/ will get rid of that antivirus 2009 malware - worked on my ex-'s system.
- GregFD3S, on 01/08/2009, -16/+328Silly website, viruses are for Windows.
- Destinyx3, on 01/08/2009, -4/+276IE MONSTER RAWR!
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+223I love the fact that the PornAdvertiser is more dangerous than the InfoStealer.Banker
- awolfe91, on 01/08/2009, -4/+177Took me longer than it should have. That multi-colored shield and official looking text had me convinced that this system must have been infected and I should immediately download the fast, easy, and effective Antivirus 2009 software to save myself from the certain doom of these terrible forms of malware.
I'll take 3 copies! - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -10/+135who'd you steal this one from pavelmeh?
- purduecory, on 01/08/2009, -3/+127MalwareBytes Anti-Malware gets rid of it in one scan and a reboot...
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ - karlw, on 01/08/2009, -4/+104do i have a virus now?
- HonoredMule, on 01/08/2009, -2/+90Don't leave us in suspense; you missed it to...what?
- phatedesigns, on 01/08/2009, -28/+111i <3 ubuntu.
- Bangaarang, on 01/08/2009, -3/+75rofl nice, I wonder if he's charging extra for that.
- darkhorizon, on 01/08/2009, -5/+77Wow, looks like you've done the impossible. You got an IE virus on Linux!
I hope you paid for the fix before you infect us all
haha - jjesusfreak01, on 01/08/2009, -3/+74Its a new kind of virus. It installs windows in a wm in your linux install, and then screws up your system.
- ArthurSucks, on 01/08/2009, -0/+61Yes. Now format your drive.
- netneutrality, on 01/08/2009, -0/+60"Jim Vernon", apparently, seeing as it's on his site and has his name on the taskbar.
- nomadxx7, on 01/08/2009, -0/+59You may be sarcastic but my friend's father actually downloaded Antivirus 2009. My god did it take a while to get rid of that crap. You can't uninstall it directly - says "You already have this installed!". And you can't just circumvent it to not run on start up. Thank god I had a free version of avast so that on system start up it would do a scan and delete the start up files. I was so close to just reformatting his computer, but alas, I spent a good 5 hours clean up after this *****.
- Murdats, on 01/08/2009, -1/+60why are spyware listed as CRITICAL and High but a trojan called InfoStealer is only medium? they couldn't even fake it right
- lowtolerance, on 01/08/2009, -0/+58It is a freaking hassle. I got it off one of the computers at school, even though they have up to virus scanners and the admins reimage the computers weekly. My virus scanner didn't catch it right away, and by then the damage was done. I ended up having to boot into linux and remove the offending files manually.
- cyrusuncc, on 01/08/2009, -1/+56He's running linux and the fake antivirus says he has an internet explorer "monster" virus
- fireashes, on 01/08/2009, -23/+76Thats why I love Ubuntu.
- fjsferreira, on 01/08/2009, -2/+55Easily uninstalled with malware bytes bro. Did it yesterday...
- tdclark23, on 01/08/2009, -5/+55He may mean Symantec's Norton Antivirus 2009. The malware pusher stole the name to increase the confusion.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -10/+60Everyone blames MS, but if people just learned to be just that little bit less stupid, 95% of the problems would disappear.
- Leo21k, on 01/08/2009, -6/+54Why the digg down?
I had both the 2008 and 2009 virus and tried all the popular free antivirus programs. Malwarebytes was the only one that got rid of this virus comepletely. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -7/+54Cheers, I missed it to.
- awolfe91, on 01/08/2009, -0/+41Sad thing is that this would easily fool the typical user... and it does. My poor Grandma.
- Smegzor, on 01/08/2009, -15/+55That thing is hidden all over the net and I have one bookmarked that I run occasionally when I'm feeling nostalgic about computer virii. I've cleaned plenty from other peoples computers, but never been infected on my own PC. I run Linux now so I can only pretend to get a virus. I'm so sad. :)
- IphtashuFitz, on 01/08/2009, -3/+41Good catch. I was about to post a question asking why a Windows antivirus article was posted in the linux/unix section...
- Slovenian6474, on 01/08/2009, -0/+33Never going to happen
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+33Nice, A 17" CRT!!!
- pintomp3, on 01/08/2009, -1/+33The dean of the school called the IT dept saying she need help installing it. Thank god she doesn't have admin rights. My friends father actually managed to install it. It was a bitch to remove.
- displaced1, on 01/08/2009, -1/+32And dicks are for chicks.
- kmb1794, on 01/08/2009, -0/+30I'm just replying so I can easily find this comment later.
- ThantiK, on 01/08/2009, -4/+32:::For those who complain they have gotten Antivirus 2009, but can't seem to remove the pop-up-bubble that comes along with it (along with almost all variants that put pop-up-bubbles in the systray
:::
A quick trick to get rid of the little help-bubble that always pops up is to restart your computer in safe mode (hit F8 just before windows boots), log on as administrator, open up windows explorer (not internet explorer for those noobs out there)...
Unhide hidden/system folders & known extentions via tools -> folder options -> views (tab)
Open up your windows/system32 directory and right click -> arrange icons by -> Modified and scroll to the last modified files.
You'll usually find the offending .dll files at the end of the list - they usually just look like sdafpoiyysadf.dll...just random jibberish. Rename them to [filenamehere].dll.backup and restart computer. If you don't get any major problems and your popup bubble is gone, you can safely remove the file.
I remove this piece of crap every day all day and usually end up charging $100/pop for it. - aklu, on 01/08/2009, -0/+28Because he fixed his Ex's system? I hope he got some dinner and "dessert" for his work.
- coheedcollapse, on 01/08/2009, -0/+27That's funny because I took it in a totally different manner. I thought it was hilarious that apparently spyware and a porn advertiser are respectively CRITICAL and high threat, but a trojan that steals bank passwords was labeled as "medium".
Double-fail? - Dubbsacc, on 01/08/2009, -0/+27Best software for Antivirus 2009 removal is Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
It's actually a Trojan called Vundo, from what I've come across in removing it from my own system. - ninjatech123, on 01/08/2009, -0/+27At the computer shop I work at about 1 in every five computers has some variant of this 'antivirus 08-09' ***** on it. 3 of 5 was brought in due to some other sort of malware/spyware/virus problems, and only 1 in 5 is brought in for a legitimate problem (software problem NOT caused by malware/spyware/virus, or hardware problems). 6-7 years ago we didn't have this problem here, about the worse '***** software' problem we would have would be something like 'gator' or 'bonzibuddy' and that was more of a nuisance but wouldn't hinder you from being able to use your computer.
- solmakou, on 01/08/2009, -1/+26Man this could have been 20x better if the title and description was just a bit better, but I guess when you are a power user these things are trivial.
- DirtyVicar, on 01/08/2009, -2/+27So some crapware site is putting up a fake virus detection popup window -- am I missing something here? Haven't we seen hundreds of fake popups like that years ago when porn surfing? Hell, any Flash app can do a Windowsesque popup under Linux.
- cannarymburns, on 01/08/2009, -0/+25I love the fact that your skull is thicker than the earth's core.
- Rikushix, on 01/08/2009, -5/+29Explanation, because I sure as hell needed it for a minute:
The dude's running Linux. Hence why it is amusing that this "Anti-Virus" brings up a pop-up with the header "Microsoft Security Warning". - venomoushealer, on 01/08/2009, -0/+24I think my second favorite part was that it runs fast and then lists some of the ***** specs imaginable.
- FaceCage, on 01/08/2009, -0/+23At first, I thought the joke was that the Spyware.IEmonster was a CRITICAL Error, and Trojan.Infostealer.banker was considered just a medium risk type of situation.
- fjsferreira, on 01/08/2009, -5/+28I don't know why you're being dugged down, cause malware bytes really does the job.
- LlarrytheLlama, on 01/08/2009, -0/+23The people who wrote and distributed Antivirus 2009 are either *****, or geniuses .... or maybe ***** geniuses? Or genius *****? Geniuses WITH *****? ***** with genius tendencies?
Damn .. The 6 other people in my head just dugg me down. -
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