"Clark" <Clark_throwaway@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:rZTrk.13097$Is1.11858@newsfe04.iad:

> siljaline wrote:
>> The evil genius of XP Antivirus 2008
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08...omy_of_a_hack/
>>
>> Silj
>
> I love XP Antivirus 2008, This thing is everywhere, I have been
> getting calls to remove it two three a day on a good week.
> Well it is good for me but bad for my customers, I did not read the
> whole article but, this thing comes in a few variations.
> some are easy and just are removed with a scan in safe mode, others,
> disable regedit, task manager, system restore, Windows update and
> control panel. The latter is usually a 90 min removal, but only
> because most of my customers have sub $800.00 PC's and they tend to be
> slow. I charge $60.00 an hour, (around here that is almost half the
> charge of the other local computer repair shops..
> It is very easy to get infected with this one...
> Clark...
> WCFP.

90 minute removal? Malwarebytes AntiMalware can cut that down for you. Of
course, you wouldn't be able to exploit people so easily then...


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