Fake or rogue antivirus has been around for a long time and they are still not giving up trying to cheat computer users. Normally this is how you will “suddenly” have a rogue antivirus or antispyware installed without you even knowing it. You visit a website and you get a warning message that is very convincing and looks like its coming from Windows telling you that you have a virus/spyware. You click on a button and it will auto install. Here comes the worst part, it then downloads viruses to your computer and the rogue antivirus will find the virus. If you want to clean the virus using the fake antivirus which you just downloaded, you’ll have to purchase the software license.
This is ridiculous isn’t it? Your computer is actually free from virus but after being tricked into installing a fake antivirus, your computer now has virus and very likely you’ll be purchasing a license for a fake antivirus. Some of the rogue antivirus are very hard to remove or uninstall. Fortunately we can automate the whole uninstallation process with this simple small portable tool called Remove Fake Antivirus.
It is very easy to use Remove Fake Antivirus. All you need to do is run the program and click the Start button. Currently Remove Fake Antivirus v1.32 is able to remove 27 types of fake antivirus and antimalware.
1. Cyber Security
2. Alpha Antivirus
3. Braviax
4. Windows Police Pro
5. Antivirus Pro 2010
6. PC Antispyware 2010
7. FraudTool.MalwareProtector.d
8. Winshield2009.com
9. Green AV
10. Windows Protection Suite
11. Total Security 2009
12. Windows System Suite
13. Antivirus BEST
14. System Security
15. Personal Antivirus
16. System Security 2009
17. Malware Doctor
18. Antivirus System Pro
19. WinPC Defender
20. Anti-Virus-1
21. Spyware Guard 2008
22. System Guard 2009
23. Antivirus 2009
24. Antivirus 2010
25. Antivirus Pro 2009
26. Antivirus 360
27. MS Antispyware 2009
For testing purposes, I’ve installed Antivirus Pro 2010 on my computer. Then it reports that there are 33 useless and unwanted files on my computer. 21 are critical privacy compromising content, 9 contains medium privacy threats and 3 are junk. At first I thought they were real virus but when I randomly uploaded 3 files to VirusTotal to have it scanned with 41 different antivirus, surprisingly no threats were detected! To remove Antivirus Pro 2010, I ran RemoveFakeAntivirus.exe, waited for a few seconds and after a reboot, Antivirus Pro 2010 has been removed.
Although Antivirus Pro 2010 gave fake reports, but I am pretty sure that there are some fake antivirus that will drop in real trojan/virus/worm on your computer. Be sure to scan your computer with a reputable antivirus such as Kaspersky, Norton, Avira or BitDefender after removing the rogue antivirus with Remove Fake Antivirus. I personally believe the list of supported rogue AVs will most likely continue to grow if Olzen manage to get more samples of the fake antiviruses. Olzen, the author of Remove Fake Antivirus is 26 years old and he’s from Malaysia too!
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The number of times I’ve run into the fake antivirus malware on my and other peoples systems beggers belief… I just wish I could get my hands on the cockroaches that develop this infestation..
Remove Fake Antivirus seriously screwed up my LAN, too. My wireless card is now out of commission. And I’m using the very latest version of RFA, too…although it did seem to get rid of my virus. Still, not worth it for the major LAN/wireless problems.
Gee, your saying to remove spy-ware use a Iobit progrom which is company that has been found to be stealing their data from another company. google it.
Thank god something like this came out. I work as a tech at a major university in the technology building. The Rtard teachers constantly get these stupid things. It makes me laugh that the teachers in the COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY manage to get these. At least twice a week Ill have to get one of these fake anti viruses off.
Hey Users, as i’ve mentioned earlier pls do not download this crapware. After I got the BSOD my LAN driver was messed up. My downloads wouldn’t start. System crashed with BSOD. This is worth it.
Raymond kindly remove this software. Many people have had similar problems. Thanks to the solution mentioned I reinstalled the and now its all fine.
I suggest you only use Malwarebytes as it is a fantastic free software that removes much more than the Fake Antivirus software and will not cause any side effects on any operating system,
Not worth it. Got BSOD. Remove it.
Raymond I downloaded and ran this program and up came the BSOD. My system rebooted and then I read about the new version 1.34 .
Once again I downloaded and ran the program and the same results. The dreaded BSOD.
Love your site Raymond.
This “Remove Fake antivirus” is very simple program, it really cannot do much, maybe in the future.
I ran it against 2 strong variation of “Security Central” and “virus Police’ and it just did nothing :(. I had to run other programs multiple time to clean the infection.
I do not recommend it at all, waste of time.
Wooh this is great software.Thank you Raymond
it really works………
i tried too….
many many thanx to you……
Thank you for promoting this small program for me. By reading the comments, I know what are the errors and bugs from the program. I have fixed the errors. The program version now is 1.34. Thanks again.
I wouldn’t recommend this program.
Starting, the program displayed “stopping virus services” and than it stopped the winlogon service which crashes the system with shutdown.
Restarting my laptop brought flickering screen as the laptop ran on batteries and not on electricity. I has to restart with F8 and “last known good configuration”.
*rogue
Great tip, Raymond!
I usually prefer to use Super Anti Spyware. It covers both rogue antiviruses and other kinds of spyware. The free version offers cleanup and the pro version offers realtime protection as well as other features.
Interesting find, nontheless :)
i used Superantispyware it removes and i’ll try this Fake antivirus thanks Raymond …
Hey Ray,
Thanks for this great post again as it really help my friend´s computer in removing the fake anti-virus.Kudos !!!
This program kills IE8 from connecting to the internet. Running xp pro sp3.
I Just would like to say I have used this progrom (8) Eight times in the last 2 1/2 months on Windows XP. It worked 5 of the times, the three that it did not work I tried other tools and still could not get the abtivirus 2009 and 2010 off but lucky i had backed up their fresh install with all of thier programs with Acronis True Image but if you have a seagate drive internal or external hooked up seagate give a free verion to use. just wipe your drive and reinstall your image backup of your fresh install you made, do your updatess and your back going in less than an hour..
PS: Raymond good that you do share the info a lot of people do not know about these tools, keep up the good work
No offense, this program is pretty useless for vista as it could mess up your driver. Next time i better not simply use application like this only if it stated for vista.
thanks for the info ray! :D
use malwarebytes guys… it really knows how to destroy fake antivirus
It’s also an amazingly fast download too!
I clicked on the link to download, and first thought, “nothing happened”, then checked my download file.
Yep! there it was!
Thank You Raymond!
Steve
sir i would like to share an info with you that is you can activate KASPERSKY internet security 2010 even by a key file all you have to do is just click on the option activate trial licence without having an internet connection.in next page you ll find error report with an option to activate using a key file
sir if u think my this work is reward able plz give me a 1 year license of kaspersky internet security 2010
even if u dont give it to me i will still be ur fan
its not that i am greedy or something i am just needy as i am a student earning and studying on my own recently i have purchased a second hand laptop of $250 US and i have heard a lot about kaspersky on ur blog.i just want it for my hard earned laptop
plz help sir
I have same problem with Des and Rash.
It reboot my system without notify me anything …..
I think I need advice from raymond too ….
cool … jus wit file size 83k only!
After running ‘Remove Fake Antivirus’, I got this error message when tried to run Microsoft Visual Studio project:
Error : Compiler executable file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc.exe cannot be found.
‘Remove Fake Antivirus’ deleted my C# compiler..!!
‘Remove Fake Antivirus’ author is already written about Microsoft Visual Studio compiler csc.exe [freeofvirus.blogspot.com/2009/10/cscexe.html],
but I think his program failed to identify the genuine csc.exe.
I’ve reinstalled Microsoft Framework.
Nice one to give it a try.
Thanks Raymond for sharing this, I’ve been wondering to find out exactly which is the best AV out there.
amon
Damn, i run the application and rebooted end it up my computer cant connect to internet using wireless. So i reinstall the wireless device.. this application can cause error to your computer. By the way i am using Vista. whats going on?
I have the same problem here.
Automatically, it just reboots my computer. Any solutions?
FYI, I don’t have an antivirus software.
thanks Ray…
nice tool. tnx
thanx ray……..
keep posting ur tests like in second last paragraph
really great information Ray
thank you ray ,thats going straight on my usb stick
I have the same problem Des faced, i started the program to check my pc and got the BSOD instead.
i had to reboot my pc.
…need more feedback from others though…abt this..
Speaking of Malaysian, you reminded me of Dr. Looi Hoong Thoong of V-Buster.
Very useful ray.
Good one, Ray… but no link to download it.
Wow..nice to know..Thanks for sharing Ray.
rogue antivirus are ralyy very dangerous, i got infected with “Smart Antivirus 2009″ , when i tried to remove it with “BIT DEFENDER”, instead of removing fake antivirus it itself get removed !!!! then i was really in big trouble when i saw that even after FORMATTING my pc 4-TIMES, it wasn’t removed!!!!!
then i made a call to HP-CUSTOMER CARE, then i came to know about”PC TOOLS-SPYWARE DOCTOR”,
AND LASTLY IT WAS ABLE TO DETECT N REMOVE THAT **} SMART ANTIVIRUS 2009.
THIS WAS HAPPY ENDING N INFACT I’M TO CELEBRATE IT’S ANNIVERSARY THIS COMING MONDAY. :-)
thanks raymond , but where is download link!
This little app could be brilliant but how do you know?
I downloaded and run and after a few seconds my system rebooted!
How do you know if you have any fake avs?
How do you know if it removed any fake avs after the reboot?
I usually trust your advice Raymond but this app leaves several questions which have to be answered before I’d consider clicking run again!
thanks for the post. i didn’t see the link in the article, so here it is: freeofvirus.blogspot.com/
i ran the software and it said “removed all fake antivirus” but it didn’t tell me if it actually found any of these things. i guess if you know for a fact you are infected this is useful.
15. Personal Antivirus is the worst
I have to deal with it so many times at work
I’ll keep the app handy thanks
Thanks but you forgot to put the download link.
Thanks Ray for this important advice.
And also thanks for the guy from Malaysia – Olsen – who developed the software Remove Fake Antivirus.
You can find Fake Antivirus 1.32 here:
softpedia.com/progDownload/Remove-Fake-Antivirus-Download-127588.html
good info ray.thanks
Hello Raymond. to avoid this problem.better use RogueRemover pro.it is famous program that tell you immediately about any rogue program that wants to install on the computer.in it there is a big black list of rogue programms and sites and immunisation from bad sites in host file.maybye this information will be usefull for someone.
thanks good one
good one
thanks for sharing