Classic Tech Tips Archive

Proving once again that it takes little creativity to put out rogue antivirus applications, the same group that was behind secure fighter (securefighter removal guide) have renamed their software aga…

There has been a ton of traffic the last few days of people looking for Security Tool Virus Removal. It seems that this pest is the latest BIG one of the rogue antivirus software crowd. Back at the e…

Interesting - it looks as though Google may be limiting the number of results in their hottrends search page to just 40 now from the 100 that they used to. I'm not very surprised really.... in the la…

SecuritySoldier is the latest in the WiniGuard Family (SecurityFIghter, SaveArmor, SaveDefender are just the names that came out in the last week.) These busy bees have pretty much just renamed the p…

Sometimes you just can't escape work. The other day on my way home an ad came on the radio for doublemyspeed.com It reminded me somewhat of the claims finallyfast.com (read my finallyfast.com removal…

Security Tool is the latest rogue antivirus application in the family which includes Total Security 2009 (read my how to remove Total Security 2009 guide if necessary.) It is visually similar and lik…

SecurityFighter is making the rounds as yet another rogue security application. It installs itself via trojans and web popups and creates files that it then claims are viral and need to be cleaned ou…

There is a new rogue among us. It appears that Alpha Antivirus has replaced Personal Antivirus as one of the latest rogue security programs. This particular rogue installs through online "scans" (pop…

It looks as though this evening facebook chat isn't working. In fact FaceBook has confirmed all sorts of problems with it's site and various applications. Chat apparently has been affected. Status up…

SaveDefender is somewhat related to SafetyKeeper in look and feel which mimics the look and feel of the Windows Security Center (which is legitimate.) Safetykeeper creates multiple files on your mach…

SafetyKeeper is a rogue security application that installs via malware (trojans) and via trojan horse applications also displays security warning popups claiming that the system is infected with malw…

Proof Defender is another rogue security application that acts and claims to be antispyware/antivirus, but in reality is nothing more than a scam to get your dollars for a program that raises red fla…

Personal Guard 2009 is another rogue antivirus application that is installed through sites that claim your pc is infected with various problems. These online "scans" will encourage you to download pe…

A lot of people seem to be (rightly so) looking for internet safety games to help teach their children (and in some cases themselves) about safety online and what you should or shouldn't say about yo…

The clampi virus is in the news in a couple places today. Surprisingly it's in Symantec's virus database since January and rated as a low risk. However, the sole purpose of this trojan is to monitor …

Total Security 2009 is also known as TotalSecurity 2009 or TotalSecurity2009. It is a newer version of the Total Security Antivirus which we highlighted just a week or so ago. It is a more troublesom…

Windows PC Defender is a rogue antivirus application that resembles the legitimate antispyware known as Windows Defender from Microsoft. Their intent apparently is to mimic the look an theming of tha…

It looks as though that Virus Doctor (or Virusdoctor) is an older rogue antivirus application, but since it seems related to the search I was seeing lot's of last night about rootscan.info I thought …

To follow up the last post about watching google hot trends.... I noticed an unusual search in the trends for rootscan.info. It currently seems to redirect to a site talking about rogue antivirus rem…

The internet is an amazing place you can learn about most anything from carbon nanotubes stopping bullets to a duvet cover. In the last few weeks I've learned a few things over at Google's hot trends…

Total Security Antivirus is another rogue security application that poses as legitimate antivirus software to dupe people into installing and then paying for it. It is related to Antivirus 360 and is…

Just as last week, the facebook fan check application virus rumor is making the rounds again. And also just as last week people searching for information on the facebook fan check virus are running i…

A lot of blackberry users are talking about a blackberry outage this afternoon and evening. It seems that the Blackberry internet service is unreliable at the moment with some users reporting a flat …

A lot of people seem to be reporting today that AVG is finding files to be infected with trojan horse proxy.ahiy or trojan horse proxy ahiy. From what I've seen, although that may be a valid virus de…

Yes folks, it's Windows Police Pro, the gift that keeps on giving apparently. It's crawled back into Googles top searches tonight. If you want to see how to remove it look at Windows Police Pro Remov…