Antivirus XP 2008 and avxp2008.com

July 23, 2008

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Removing Antivirus 2009
Removing Antivirus 2009

I’ve been monitoring my traffic a fair amount over the past few weeks since I first published XP Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009 are evil!. It looks like things were starting to taper off a little but has jumped up this week and in checking my Google Analytics Traffic Sources, I see that I am getting a bunch of hits from Google for the term ‘avxp2008′. Surprisingly, there were only 5 hits for that term, this site being one of them due to the mention in a comment from krisi on July 12th.

One of the search results had a vague mention of a web address of avxp2008.com. So I fired up Firefox and took a visit. While not quite as slick as the other site (see Antivirus 2009 and microsoft.browserprotectioncenter.com), they are definitely doing everything they can to try to lull you into their confidence and click on one of their download links. With most sites, you expect some kind of intermediate page once you click a download link where they will either provide some additional details or instructions or gather some information from you. Not here. They try right off the bat to get you to download a .exe file (AntivirusXP2008Installer.exe) in the hopes that you will click the Run button and install it.

If you are already infected, you should take a look at Removing Antivirus 2009 - Round 3 for how I was able to remove it from my Dad’s computer. In the next day or so I hope to post a quick article on how to avoid getting infected in the first place.

If anyone has any other advice or suggestions, please leave a comment for others to benefit from.

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2 Responses to “Antivirus XP 2008 and avxp2008.com”

  1. mr P on August 1st, 2008 4:21 pm

    I m very mad with your sofware automatically malicious degenerates a system that is in good order and urge you stop this malware at the cost of your living inmediately.

    goodbye

  2. coyote on August 18th, 2008 2:50 pm

    My dad had this problem over the weekend. I went to the helpful folks at MetaFilter, who gave me some helpful tips, which saved me a lot of the pain you went through.

    Instead of looking like a shill, I’ll just point you to the relevant thread on MeFi:
    http://ask.metafilter.com/99303/Help-my-father-troubleshoot-a-pesky-virus

    hopefully users can draw their own conclusions from there.

    I did not know CoPilot was free on the weekends. That would have saved me $20 in gas and a trip to connecticut. So that’s for that.

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