Antivirus 2009 and Fakeness
Thought I would write a little on this horrible fake and deciving software. Reason being is the 11 seperate clients in the past 2 weeks that have been infected by it. Probably not a lot in the grand scheme of things but I live in a town with a population of 3000 so 11 is a lot and they are just the ones i know about.
Antivirus 2009 is a clone of the infamous Antivirus 2008. Antivirus 2009 usually come up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. Antivirus 2009 normally generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so end-users will be tricked into purchase Antivirus 2009.
It is very important to remove all the components of of the Antivirus 2009 and all the malware and trojans that it might have come bundle with (such as zlob.trojan, trojan.vundo and Trojan.Downloader).
Yep this is a nasty one. Of course no one actually knows how it got on their PC 
but a simple read from the countless references I googled explains that it comes from sites of dubious nature, be it porn sites, warez sites or free music sites. In my experience its usually a teen or child in the family that has inadvertently downloaded it…but whos going to admit it
Once infecyed you get a myriad of pop ups, scan windows, hijacked web pages and even fake Blue Screens of Death. All trying to make you shell out $50.00us to fix these problems….its a SCAM none of it is real but its slick and persistant.
Now the clincher here is getting rid of it…it gets itself deep into your system and can be a bugger to shift. Generally I find a combination of Addaware, Spybot and AVG to be fairy successful in cleaning an infected system, run one after the other. This takes time, patience a little know how too…but is preferable to giving the scumbags that make this your cash.
As at writing this I am trialing a program called Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, which says it will get rid off it completley…I will know the results soon.
Moral here is just because it says its the be all and end all of your PC problems doesnt mean its actually true.