According to McAfee, the number of fake anti-virus software (also known as "Scareware") increased by 400% since 2009 to a loss of about 300 million U.S. dollars for the victims.
The thieves are malicious programs that steal personal information from your computer and use it illegally. They can provide information for various purposes, such as spam, junk mail, bank account, credit card use, etc. Be aware, these programs seem legal at first, but when looking at it a little, you know what they really are.
Another thing that this software is fake, show your computer is infected with the virus and we highly recommend you buy a software to clean your computer.
CleanUp Antivirus
CleanUp Antivirus is a phony antivirus software, designed to infected PC after PC and at the same time rip people off.
Dr Guard
Dr Guard is another nasty rogue security program that is infecting numerous PC’s across the interwebs. Dr Guard is made to look like legit security software, but is in fact a nasty PC infection.
Antimalware Defender
Antimalware Defender is made to look like a legit Windows security program. It will scan the computer and display numerous infections, which are fake, shown only to scare people into buying the software to remove the supposed infections.
Some other fake antivirus programs are:
XP Guardian 2010
XP Internet Security
Antivirus XP 2010
XP Antivirus Pro 2010
Security Antivirus
Advanced Defender
My Security Wall
XP Internet Security
Antivirus XP 2010
XP Antivirus Pro 2010
Security Antivirus
Advanced Defender
My Security Wall
