Antivirus 2008 or Antivirus2008, is an anti-virus program that is said to be a tool that can help you remove computer users with security scans for parasites. This is NOT TRUE. Antivirus 2008 also known as Antivirus2008 becomes installed in your computer with the help of Trojan infections or malicious websites.
Antivirus 2008 or Antivirus2008 runs a scan on your system displaying several parasites that it found. Again, the results of the scan is totally false. After that, it will start displaying popup alerts that warn you of dangerous files that you could be infected with. These alerts are untrue and the only infection that you may have is the actual Antivirus 2008 program which should be removed immediately.
Antivirus 2008 or Antivirus2008 is known on the Web as FraudTool.Win32.AntiVirus2008.j by Kaspersky, Downloader.MisleadApp by Symantec, Win32/SillyDl.EMX, Antivirus2008, Rogue.Antivirus2008 by others.
Antivirus 2008 Automatic Removal Instructions
This automatic removal method is for those who are not really good with computers. Or if you’re too lazy to learn about spyware removal and how to access sensitive files in your computer, then this is the method for you.
- Download and save SmitFraudFix to your desktop.
- Restart your computer in Safe Mode.
- Once the desktop appears, double click on the SmitfraudFix.exe on your desktop.
- After the credits screen, you’ll see a menu. Select the option number 2, which is ‘Clean (safe mode recommended)’, and then press Enter to delete infect files.
- SmitFraudFix will begin cleaning your computer and take a series of cleanup processes. When the process is over, it will automatically begin the Disk Cleanup program.
- Once the Disk Cleanup program is complete, you will be prompted with the message ‘Registry cleaning - Do you want to clean the registry’. Answer Y (Yes) and hit Enter.
- Reboot your computer.
- SmitFraudFix will now check if wininet.dll is infected. SmitFraudFix will ask you whether to replace the infected file (if there’s any) ‘Replace infected file?’ Answer by typing Y (Yes) and hit Enter.
- Reboot your computer to complete the cleaning process.
- After reboot, a Notepad screen may appear containing a log of all the files removed from your computer. If it doesn’t appear, a file will be created called rapport.txt in the root of your drive, (Local Disk C:).
- Restart your computer in Safe Mode.
- Go to C:\Windows\Temp, click Edit, click Select All, press DELETE, and then click Yes to confirm that you want all the items to go to the Recycle Bin.
- Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[LISTED USER]\Local Settings\Temp, click Edit, click Select All, press DELETE, and then click Yes to confirm that you want all the items to go to the Recycle Bin.
- Reboot your computer back to normal mode. Go to Windows Update and download all critical updates.
The steps above is just one of the many ways you can remove Antivirus2008 in your computer. To learn more ways on how to remove Antivirus 2008 in your computer, please search the internet for more resources. I'm sure there are other antivirus programs that you can use.
