Personal Antivirus is made by the same jerks who make other nasty rogue security software including; Antivirus 2009, Antivirus 360 and TotalSecurity.
Like most rogue antispyware and rogue antivirus software, Personal Antivirus uses trojans to infect PC after PC. Once Personal Antivirus makes it's way onto a computer it will continually bombard the user with false and misleading security alerts in the form of pop-ups, system scan results and warnings that look very similar to windows system alerts. All this in an effort to make people think they need to buy Personal Antivirus to clean their computers. Unfortunately after the corrupt software is purchased it is completely useless.
Click here to remove Personal Antivirus from your computer with VIRPE. VIPRE will also remove the Trojan that this rogue rode in on too!
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Tipping Point have a filter for this malware, used in the 3Com X-series devices (X5, X506) and the Tipping Point's own Intrusion Prevention Systems. Im sure other vendors either have or are working on the problem, but they're a bit quiet on the whole debacle.
ReplyDeleteFinally someone found a way to stop this thing. A convincing GUI made this one a bit of a trap for some of our customers.
There’s a good wiki page too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_software