A Warning Against Personal Antivirus

Personal Antivirus is the latest in a string of especially devious malware entities. These new ones pretend to be anti-malware programs, and get you to download them to keep your computer safe… ironically, infecting your computer! Personal Antivirus is a particularly bad one, so you should know how to get rid of it and do so quickly, or your entire computer could become as good as a bulky paperweight.

This example of malware uses extremely pushy, dishonest advertising claiming that your computer is infected by spyware or some other form of malware, thus encouraging you to immediately download Personal Antivirus and run it to scourge your hard drive clean of the vile things. But unfortunately, this ad is a lie, and Personal Antivirus will cheerfully infect and harm your system should you trust its marketing.

DO NOT allow this software to remain on your computer for any amount of time!

Apart from flashing ads and pop-ups the threats like sending your browsing history, your saved passwords, credit card details, email id’s and passwords to a remote server where any hacker can use your details for his personal use, without you knowing anything about it.

The dynamic and extremely sophisticated nature of the rogue spyware program makes it very difficult to remove it from your system, thereby causing enough damages to your system and its operating speed. This software creates a large number of random files, unwanted system files which makes it even more difficult to trace and remove from the system for the best of the anti spyware programs. Moreover, the manual removal of the randomly generated files is almost impossible as the rogue software is an expert in generating duplicate files in any number. Once you delete them, they will re-appear again and again.

Programs of higher quality may cost a bit of money, but have features that enable them to detect more bugs, and more recent spyware. You will also find yourself well protected in the future, as better anti-spyware programs will include features that can prevent you from ever being infected at all. Some examples would be PC Tools Spyware Doctor 6.0, and Sunbelt CounterSpy 3.1, which are priced anywhere between $45 and $20.

Such an investment will be beneficial to you, especially in the case of Personal Antivirus. This type of rogue spyware tends to be harder to get rid of because it is more difficult to detect and remove. It will literally hide obscure files that may be undiscernable in your program files. Even when you have uninstalled and removed the root files of this program, the code in these hidden files reinstalls the program. Trying to manually remove hidden files is nearly impossible because they are random and harder to identify as spyware. In the end it is much safer to spend a little and protect yourself in the future.

Susan Reynolds is the webmaster for a leading Spyware Removal Software brand. For more information visit: http://www.spywareremovaldoc.com