Fraudulent Virus Protect appears, claiming to be an antivirus.

by lengpengcheng on 2007-12-13 18:35:35

Virus Protect is a new threat that has recently appeared on the Internet and runs rampant. You may think from its name that it is a security product which can be used to protect your system against virus damage. That's wrong.

In fact, Virus Protect is only a spyware rogue antivirus software. Its sole purpose is to try to get you to pay for it. According to an anonymous victim, when this rogue antivirus software appears on your computer, it always displays tens of warning windows and pops up Windows dialog boxes, warning that viruses and other threats have been found on your computer. In order to remove these infections, you need to upgrade Virus Protect to the full version. Obviously, you have to buy it. But the problem is that its full version does not even exist!