How to Get Rid of Anti-Virus Pop-Ups

A brand new trend in spyware in the last many years has been for malware developers to try to trick you in to spending money on anti-spyware computer software to keep your pc free from spy and malware. The authors of those tools attempt to get this done by displaying a pop-up advertisement on your pc informing you that the computer is infected with spyware and viruses and attempting to convince one to down load and get fake spyware removal computer software. In fact, this can be a ploy to make you further infect your pc by downloading the Antivirus 2009 malware, which acts as a Trojan horse for downloading additional malware to your pc. To be able to clean your pc off the Antivirus 2009 disease, you have to combine manual and automatic detection and cleaning techniques on your pc.

Restart your pc in safe mode by rapidly depressing the "F8" key throughout the reboot process. When queried via a system menu selection, choose "Safe Mode with Networking. " Search and destroy all files on your pc that have the "Antivirus 2009" file name. To get this done, choose the "Start->Search" menus and type "Antivirus 2009" in the search box. Delete all files which are came back from the search of local drives. Update your anti-virus computer software and run an entire scan of one's computer. Choose the "Clean" option on all infected files came back by the scan. Repeat the anti-virus scan of one's computer before you have a minumum of one complete scan that returns no infected computer files.