As an update to an earlier post about the nasty malware Antivirus 2009, a.k.a Antivirus 2008, a.k.a Antivirus XP, I've helped a few more people remove this garbage from their computers.
Today I encountered a laptop that was almost completely taken over by Antivirus 2009.
- Trying to access the control panel resulted in the desktop temporarily disappearing while the program closed the window. I could not access it at all.
- Attempting to access the Windows Live Onecare website resulted in internet explorer and firefox automatically shutting down.
- Task manager did not show the process tab or the file menu.
- The installed antivirus, McAffee, was blocked from running.
- The software tools I mentioned before were blocked from being downloaded.
I needed a quick solution and did not have time to try to dig the software out of the registry and manually remove the files, so I tried Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. You do not have to pay to use this software. The free version completely removed Antivirus from the laptop in the first scan. I highly recommend you try this if you get infected with Antivirus 2008/2009/XP.
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