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Antivirus 360
is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses false scan results and aggressive advertising in order to promote itself. This rogue is replacing the Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009 rogue programs that have been aggressively circulating the Internet. If you are infected you may see a large amount of pop-ups stating that your computer is infected and that you should install Antivirus 360 in order to protect yourself. If you click on the ad, Antivirus 360 will be downloaded to your computer and you will be prompted to install it.
Any web user can catch this malware simply by clicking on an Internet link that happens to have been altered (the link you are visiting has been hacked) to redirect visitors from a legitimate search page to a fake
one. The fake page will then display a mock up of a Windows XP window, and proceed to show that your computer is "infected" with a long list of viruses and recommends downloading a thing called AV360- Antivirus 360
(not to be confused with Norton 360, a well known security program).
Once installed, Antivirus 360 will be configured to start automatically when you start Windows. Once started, the program will appear to perform a scan, and when done, will list a variety of legitimate or nonexistent files as infections that cannot be removed unless you first purchase the program.
What is so dangerous about these scan results is that the files that Antivirus 360 states are infections are actually legitimate Microsoft files, that if deleted, will cause Windows to become unusable. Therefore, if
someone believes the results from this program they may manually delete the files thinking they are infections and cause their computer to no longer function.
While running you will also see a constant barrage of false security alerts stating that your computer has a variety of security risks. These risks range from files being modified to private data being sent to a
remote computer. These alerts, though, are false and are only being shown to further scare you into thinking you are infected, when in fact the Antivirus 360 program is the actual infection. Unfortunately, these
alerts coupled will affect your computer's performance and you will notice that it begins to operate slower.
SystemDudes has cleaned these and similar threats from many PCs to date and would be glad to help you rid your PC of this trojan.
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