Ghost Antivirus is a rogue antivirus application that is the successor to Antivirus Pro. This rogue is pushed through trojan horse activity and aggressive advertising tactics. It makes things very challenging to remove this rogue because it disables task manager, as well as any security programs that it detects. It also installs other malware on your system and terminates explorer.exe which makes the desktop unusable. It is possible to remove this rogue and you need to reboot into safe mode (with networking) in order to do so. Read on for how to remove ghost antivirus.
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How to Remove APCProtect | APCProtect Removal Guide
APCProtect is the latest rogue antivirus product in the wini family of rogue security sotware. It is generally pushed through sites that claim in order to view a video you need to install a video codec update or flash player update. This “update” is actually the loader for apcprotect. Once it is installed on your system you will find that it will nag you with many popup warnings about your system security. It will claim that you have viruses on your system and that the virus infection cannot be resolved until you purchase their software. Please avoid this scam and read on for how to remove APCProtect.
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How to Remove PC Live Guard | PC Live Guard Removal Guide
PC Live Guard is a Rogue antivirus application that typically installs on a system through aggressive advertising and fake scan sites. You will see things that pop up appearing to be a scan of your computer, but it’s really just an ad pushing this product. Once the software is on your system it will create many files that it then holds up as proof of your system being infected by viruses. It also pops up many warnings about your system security and claims that it cannot fix any of the problems until you purchase the software. Read of for how to remove PC Live Guard.
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How to Remove KeepCop | Keep Cop Removal Guide
KeepCop is yet another of those rogue antivirus applications that seem to be such a plague on computer users today. These rogue security applications usually installed without permission, or by means of trickery claiming to be a video codec or flash player update. Further they will start out on your computer by creating many new files in C:\Windows and c:\Windows\System32. They will then come back and scan these files and claim they have viruses. It’s basically a scam. They will find problems on any machine. Read on for how to remove Keepcop.
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How to Remove Eco Antivirus 2010 | Eco Antivirus 2010 Removal Guide
Eco Antivirus 2010 is a slight twist (renaming) of the recent Eco Antivirus rogue that has made the rounds. These rogues pretend to be antivirus, or antispyware software, but in reality are not much more than a scam trying to squeeze money out of unsuspecting computer users. These rogue applications will typically be installed when someone visits a web site that pops up or redirects a user to a page that looks as though it’s an antivirus program doing a scan. Then when the person clicks to remove of fix problems (and sometimes even if they don’t) the software is installed and starts its own task of finding problems to complain about. Sometimes these programs create files to claim have viruses. Almost all of the time the claims are falsified. Read on for how to remove eco Antivirus 2010.
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How to Remove Personal Protector | Personal Protector Removal Guide
Personal Protector is a rogue antivirus program that is advertised through aggressive advertising and fake scan sites. Fake scan sites are web pages that upon loading appear to be running a virus scan or other check of your local computer. In reality these are usually simply an animation and every visitor to the site will see the same results. When installed on your system, Personal Protector will appear to scan your hard drive and claim to find many problems, virus infected files and the like. In order to fix those problems it claims you will need to buy the software. This is a scam as there really isn’t anything wrong with your computer other than personal protector. Read on for how to remove personal Protector.
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How to Remove Control Center | Control Center Removal Guide
Control Center is a Rogue Security application that is designed to scare people into paying for it. It is a scam. All of it’s claims about compromised system security are falsified and it really doesn’t do anything outside of promote itself. It would be best if you were to avoid paying money for this scam and instead read on for a guide to how to remove control center.
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How to Remove Enterprise Suite | Enterprise Suite Removal Guide
Enterprise Suite is a rogue antivirus application that is a successor to Windows Enterprise Suite. Enterprise Suite is usually installed without permission on a machine and displays numerous fake scans and popups claiming that the system is infected with multiple viruses. All of these claims are falsified and should not be paid attention to. Further, they will claim that in order to fix the problems with your computer you need to purchase their software. Please do not pay for this, it is a scam. Read on for how to remove Enterprise Suite.
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How to Remove AntiAid | AntiAid Removal Guide
AntiAid is a rogue antivirus/security program that is from the Wini family of Rogues. This is a bit of a departure from much of the long recent history of these rogues due to a new user interface. This rogue (and it’s family) is usually advertised (pushed would be a better term) through codec downloads. They will present content and say that in order to view it you must download this codec which turns out to be the rogue. Once installed, AntiAid will scan your computer and claim there are numerous problems with your system with regards to viral infected files. To remove these it will require that you purchase the software which…. you really shouldn’t do. Read on for how to remove AntiAid.
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How to Remove Antivirus 360
This should not be confused with Norton 360 which is a legitimate antivirus program (although if you need help removing Norton 360 to reinstall it or another antivirus program you may want to visit my antivirus removal tool list.)
What we are talking about this time is a rogue security application known as Antivirus 360. Like many other rogue security applications (wolves in sheeps clothing as I used to call them), Antivirus 360 may have installed itself on your system by way of a security flaw in your browser or some other less than admirable method. Such avenues include aggressive popup ad advertising after a system is infecting with a trojan such as vundo. It seems to be the successor to the Antivirus 2009 rogue application.