Antimalware is the name of a particularly interesting rogue antivirus and rogue antimalware application. One tip off that it is a rogue application is that one of it’s first actions is the attempted removal of the following trusted and legitimate antivirus, security and antimalware applications: AVG, Nod32, Agnitum, Sophos, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes antimalware, bitdefender. Antimalware also scans your hard drive and claims many files are infected with viruses. It uses the names of known viruses, but the files that it finds are infected really are not viral. It further claims that it will clean up the problems when you purchase the software, but of course, you can’t fix problems that don’t really exist. In short everyone sees the same scan results. Further… antimalware tries to present the look and feel of the windows security center. Read on for how to remove AntiMalware. (Please do not confuse this with the legitimate Malwarebytes Antimalware which we will use to remove this rogue.)
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Can I have more than One Antivirus Program?
This is a question I see quite a bit… in fact I just saw this questoin while browsing the web. Generally it’s NOT a good idea to have more than one antivirus program. Given the low level system access that antivirus software needs to have it can interfere with correctly protecting the system from the viruses as it’s supposed to. It IS possible to have an antivirus program and other software that protects against spyware. You just need to be careful and check out the software you plan to use. I’m starting a list of good virus and spyware removal tools some of which are standalone antivirus or anti-spyware software.