I didn't know where it came from, it happened to be in my taskbar last night, doing some fake scan and listed down thousands of made up trojan and viruses. I wasn't surprised because I forgot to install back any antivirus. Yeah I uninstalled Avira a week ago because there's conflict when I was about to install Adobe Photoshop. The good thing about fake Antivirus 2008 is, it came as a reminder to me to install Avira back on my laptop. You might wonder how does it looks like, so here are some of the screenshots I could grab before I permanently removed it.
It changed my desktop too!
How to remove it?
The removal is not as hard as removing USB worm, thanks to Bleeping Computer for introducing a wonderful software that can be used to automatically remove the fake antivirus. The installation is easy, just follow through the instruction given onscreen and you should be doing fine.
After the installation perform quick scan as in pictures below and once the scan is done click on the Remove Selected button to remove all the listed malware. Easy peasy!
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Aug 8, 2008 at 02:24:17
I was infected with a similar thing before. Spyware Doctor took care of that
Aug 11, 2008 at 23:51:45
I think I’ve removed the bug, using RougRemover and Threatfire….but I still can’t change my desktop back to normal! When I right-click on my desktop and select “properties”, my desktop background options are no longer there. Please help!
Aug 23, 2008 at 23:40:05
for removing the wallpaper.. well, first thing, i dont think its a wallpaper at all.
move your mouse to the the top of your screen. and u’ll see a dock appear.. (tadaaa!!).. just click the close button and the “wallpaper” (its a window damn it!) will disappear..abracadabra..
well if it didnt work.. am sorry for u. tsk tsk.
am not a fake helper btw.. but am a fake hen, yes. :D
Sep 5, 2008 at 16:43:31
Yup, previously even I got infected with this one. I tried almost every branded antiviruses including Norton, Avast, Avira, Panda, McCafe, but just to my surprise none of them became able to clean that. finally I googled this, and got two antispywares, (1) Malwarebyte (2) SuperAntiSpyware. SuperAntiSpyware removed that permanently. I would suggest Malwarebyte and SuperAntiSpyware for this.
Just my 2 paise…
Sep 5, 2008 at 22:59:57
Thanks mate for the recommendations. I’m sure they will come handy to those infected :)
Dec 29, 2008 at 03:50:39
I am infected and I already had those two installed–and now they are not working! Have the creators gotten smarter and figured out some way to disable those programs? Any ideas as to what to do?
Dec 31, 2008 at 06:47:13
Install Malware Bytes, it is free and works great against all derivatives. XP Antivirus, Antivirus 2008, Antivirus 2009
Jan 5, 2009 at 02:21:27
i have just removed the removal 2008 with alot of pain the ass ,only one thing helped me use the Malwarebyte its free and easy.
thankss guys.
Mar 23, 2009 at 03:21:56
simple remove it from the startup with CCLEANER UNDER START UP THEN RESTART THE PC REMOVE ALL UKNOWN START UP PROGRAMS THEN INSTALL AVAST FROM AVAST.COM
SCAN PC AFTER INSTALLATION YOU WILL BE ASKT TO SCAN PC SAY YES THEN REMOVE ALL VIRUSES TO DELETE HAVE FUN