114 fake windows av's to avoid

read on here:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/114-Windows-Antivirus-to-Avoid-at-All-Costs-130245.shtml

 

Good to see this being flagged up.
I've had to remove a couple of these from machines before brought to me by friends of family, and as it mentions they often download, or open doors for other malware to infect.
Last one I had to use several different rescue discs on, and combofix once the virus blocking it were out the way; the windows install was just completely locked down and messed up, to the point I had to treat the machine from a livecd, and had well over 40 virus on it. I dont doubt some of them started with the fake AV.

Hopefully companies will continue to add detection to prevent these taking root on a system, as they're malicious, self-serving things that can often lead to much worse problems.

 

Thanks for this Z...
*bookmarked*


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