Saturday, February 21, 2009

Antivirus 360 Removal - Remove Antivirus 360 the Easy Way

It comes from the same family of Rogue Antispyware software as
Antivirus 2009 and is advertised via the Vundo Trojan, yet
Antivirus 360 is quickly making a name for itself and not in a
good way. If this program does make its way onto your computer
you are likely facing a nightmare scenario where your computer
is getting hammered with popups, it has slowed to a crawl, and
nothing seems to work - but the good news is that there actually
is an easy solution to removing Antivirus 360 for good.

First of all, if you are receiving the never ending popups that
state that you are infected with spyware and you need to install
Antivirus 360 to protect yourself and remove the spyware, then
you are already infected with spyware - most likely in the form
of the Vundo Trojan.

At this point, if you did end up clicking on the ad and
installing Antivirus 360 then your problems have just doubled -
actually they have multiplied because Antivirus 360 is not a
true antispyware program and will actually end up installing
more and more malware onto your computer.

So in essence you are still infected by the Vundo Trojan and now
you are infected with Antivirus 360 and numerous other programs
that it will download and install onto your computer without you
knowing.

But again, you need to be aware that even if you didn't click on
the ad and are still receiving the popups you are infected by
Vundo.

Now there are numerous guides out there that may show you how to
go about manually removing the infected files, folders,
processes, and registry entries but that doesn't work. The
reason is that Antivirus 360 is smart enough to reinstall itself
after you restart your computer so even though you might believe
you have deleted everything associated with it, it will just
come back again - over and over.

That is the bad news.

But here is the good news - Antivirus 360 can be removed rather
easily provided you download and install top of the line
antispyware software that has the ability to detect and remove
it. This is the tricky part because not all spyware removers are
capable of removing Antivirus 360 and in fact, most won't even
come close.