Antivir64…not What it Seems
Antivir64 is one of many rogue security tool programs a person may encounter on the Internet. Corrupt security programs are the latest in malware technology, and are clearly nothing but malicious. They pretend to be actual antispyware or antivirus tools, but actually provide you with a malware infection and try to scam you out of your money. They can actually lead into a full blown identity theft, and leave you nothing but broke and with a malicious program.
Malicious antimalware programs will often lurk in the more seedy parts of the internet. They also will tend to have a counterfeit antispyware or antivirus site. Although efforts are underway to shut down infected websites, this process just isn’t fast enough to catch them all. Most of the time, the infected websites are pornographically or gambling oriented, when they’re not being truly deceptive with the infected antimalware sites. Occasionally an infection from a seedy site will redirect a user to the infected security tool sites.
The other primary means of transmission of these programs is much harder to track and prevent. A user can also get infected from peer to peer (P2P) file sharing and downloading pirated software. These may also redirect you to a bogus antimalware home page. Aside from being illegal, which has its own risks, the danger of infection is extremely high from these practices. Ultimately, it’s really just not worth it.
Unfortunately, aside from having a good antispyware program, there is no way to preemptively know that a website is infected. This is why the false security tool pages exist. If you don’t have a good program already, you’re probably looking for one. You may also want to test the effectiveness of their software, so you may want to click their “free online scan” or “free trial version” button. This will automatically lead to an infection. The presence of these buttons is unfortunately no sign of an infected site. Many legitimate security tool websites have these buttons as well.
If you get infected, you’re in for a nightmare. First, they’ll never tell you that you’re not infected. They will count all your temporary files and say that they’re infected files. Then you will be offered the full version for a relatively high price. Actually, the price could be all the money left in your credit card or bank account. Next they will get into some hard selling. There is a button to accept the offer, and there is one to turn it down. However, if you turn down the software, they will never say, “Okay, bye then.” The window will immediately pop back up and won’t let you do anything else with your browser.
Naturally, you don’t want to buy their low-end program. The most effective thing it will do is download more spyware on your computer anyway. You still can get out of this situation by turning off your PC. Then it’s time to go and get a real security tool and clean house.
Carl runs a site devoted to helping you rid your computer from all sorts of spyware and malware at http://www.spyzooka.com/
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