Paladin Antivirus pretends to be a knight in shining armor come to save you from the badware villains, but it’s actually just another troll bent on stealing your money. Plus, it’s weird. There’s an inexplicable, slightly frightening android eye in the upper-right corner, and it uses a picture of a syringe to go with its “System Scan” function. Who’s the genius who thought this creepiness would work? Other than that, Paladin Antivirus is typical fake antispyware. It sneaks into your computer through Paladin Antivirus pop-ups, shows fake system scans designed to scare you into paying for the full version, and tries to make you uninstall your real antivirus software. Ready to fight back against this faux-warrior? Here’s how to uninstall Paladin Antivirus for free.

SecurePcAv is a rogue anti-spyware program from the Wini family of malware. This rogue is promoted and installed through the use of Trojans that pretend to be programs necessary to view certain online videos. When you download and install this Trojan it will install the rogue and configure it to start automatically when your computer starts. This same Trojan will also create fake malware files on your computer with random filenames that are then detected as viruses when SecurePcAv scans your computer. The program, though, will state that it will not remove these files until you first purchase it. This is obviously a scam as the program is only detecting the files it created in the first place. In reality, these files are harmless and do not pose any risk to your computer. Thus this programs scan results should be ignored. [...]

People ask me many times how are the bad guys using Facebook to distribute malware. Even though there are multiple answers to that question, at the end of the day Facebook is just another way to communicate, and it has more that 400 million users, so it's just another mean ...

Your PC Protector is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses aggressive techniques to stop your from removing it from your computer. This malware is installed via Trojans that install it on to your computer without permission. Once installed the rogue will attempt to stop you from running any executable programs and will display an alert when you run them stating that the program is infected. It will also automatically restart itself via a Windows service every time you shut down the process, so you will need to shutdown both the service and the rogue process to stop it from being restarted. [...]

Advanced Defender is a rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Personal Protector. This rogue is distributed through malware that will install the program onto your computer without your permission or knowledge. While being installed this program will also create fake and harmless malware files on your computer that will be detected by Advanced Defender when it scans your computer. [...]

Advanced Defender is a fake security application. It drops files in the system (non PE files) and detects them as fake infections to scare users. It also prevent legit softwares execution, displaying an alert/infected message.If your PC is infected with Advanced Defender use MBAM to remove the infection.

SecurePcAv (Secure PC AV) is a fake security software (rogue) from the Winisoft family (SafePcAv, GuardWWW, MyPcSecure, PcSecureNet, PcsSecure, APcSafe, APcSecure, DefendAPc, SysDefenders, InSysSecure, SysProtector, APcDefender, PcsProtector, GreatDefender, APCprotect, ProtectPcs, SysDefence, TheDefend, GuardPcs, IGuardPc, SiteAdware, AntiTroy, AntiKeep, AntiAdd, RESpyWare, REAnti, KeepCop, SiteVillain, LinkSafeness, SecureKeeper, AntiAID, System Warrior, System Veteran, System Fighter, Block Protector, Block Keeper, Block Scanner, Block Watcher, SoftBarrier, Shield Safeness, Soft Stronghold, Soft Veteran, SoftCop, Soft Soldier, Trust Fighter, Trust Soldier, Safe Fighter, Trust Cop, Secure Warrior, Secure Fighter, Secure Veteran, Security Soldier, Security Fighter, Save Armor, Save Defender, Trust Warrior, Soft Safeness, Safety Keeper, Save Keeper, Quick Heal Cleaner, System Cop, Block Defense, Save Defense, Trust Ninja, Save Soldier, Save Keep, Winishield, Wini Fighter, WiniBlueSoft)SecurePcAv comes from fake online antivirus scanners or fake video codecs, creates random files on the system and detects them as infected. It also display a lot of disturbing warning messages to scare users.If your PC is infected with some of the WiniSoft family rogue, use MBAM to remove the infection.

By Andrew Brandt February 9 marks Safer Internet Day, and around the world, people are trying to help their fellow netizens navigate an obstacle course of threats to their security and privacy. InSafe, the organization funded by the EU that sponsors the annual youth-targeted event, has themed the day around the concept “Think B4 U post.” [...]

Paladin Antivirus is not a real antivirus application. If you want to keep your computer safe and secure, you should keep away from this fraud. Paladin Antivirus is made to look like a real security program in order to trick the user into thinking that it may protect their computer. Unfortunately, Paladin Antivirus is not meant to provide security. This application has the only purpose – make the user purchase it as if it was a security software.

SafePcAv is a malicious anti-spyware application. This rogue program usually spreads via Trojan. Once it is loaded to user's computer the parasite starts an automatic scan. These kind of scans are fake. Rogue anti-spyware program shows you exaggerated security reports and fake security alerts. In these cases you need to ignore all warnings.Moreover, SafePcA attempts to trick user into paying small fees for fabricated SafePcA anti-spyware program. This is a malicious program.

XP Internet Security 2010 is a malware often downloaded and installed via Automatic Update. This rogue anti-spyware program has an ability to scan your computer automatically. Those scans usually end with a result the parasite shows fraudulent scan results and floods your computer's desktop with all kind of fictitious warnings. It states your PC may be infected. However, it is a fake and you should ignore all the statements.

This time I'd like to inform you about SafePcAv - one of the most recent Winisoft rogues, increasingly attacking huge numbers of unaware computer users. Be careful and don't become their next victim! read more in www.pc1news.com

Paladin Antivirus is a fake security application (rogue) from the CoreGuard family.Paladin Antivirus detects fake infections on a clean system to scare users. It also prevent legit softwares execution, displaying an alert/infected message.The rogue contain Malwarebytes MBAM database, but Paladin Antivirus is unable to work with it as the engine is not optimized to use the best of the stolen data.Licensing the software and clicking [Check for Updates] button launch an animation but there is no network activity.If your PC is infected with Paladin Antivirus use MBAM to remove the infection.

APcSecure, SystemVeteran, QuickHealCleaner, IGuardPC... These are just some members from the Winisoft rogueware family. Today I would like to warn you against a new malicious Winisoft family member called GuardWWW. Is it worth our attention and should we be worried about it? read more in www.pc1news.com

XP Internet Security 2010 is a rogue anti-spware program. This malware pretends to be un update for Windows installed via Automatic Updates. The parasite has an characteristic to scan your computer automatically once your computer is started. This is done absolutely without user’s knowledge. Just after the fake scan malware shows many fake warnings stating [...]

Today at SophosLabs we encountered another interesting rogue security software (Fake AV) variant, Troj/FakeAv-AUF. When run Troj/FakeAv-AUF poses as the Windows Automatic Update facility and purports to install an update named XP Internet Security. This is, as you will have guessed by now, not a genuine Windows security update, this is malware which [...]

Paladin Antivirus (PaladinAntivirus) is a notorious release of fake antispyware that has so far infected thousands computers by trojans downloaders and trojans notifiers. Those trojans arrange Paladin Antivirus downloading inserting it directly without prior user’s notifying and his authorization or by inclining that very user to download the scamware showing [...]

SafePcAv is a malware and often is installed via Trojan. The parasite is also a clone of GuardWWW, MyPcSecure, PcSecureNet and others from the family of WiniSoft. This rogue anti-spyware program is not an exception and it is also downloaded to the users computer after the Trojan is released. Every time  your start the computer [...]

Paladin Antivirus is a fraudulent anti-spyware. It is also a clone from a group as Malware Defense. The  parasite spreads via Trojan and once the Trojan is released the rogue program starts scan the users PC. On your computer’s desktop malware displays fake scan results and floods all kind of fake warnings stating your computer [...]

Recent examples show that researchers failed and have serious issues by making sure the security of Internet Explorer from the attackers. The latest versions of IE seemed to be vulnerable because the attackers demonstrated they can make and use a hole for their own malicious interests. For that reason researchers tried to use the weakness in Adobe Systems' Flash Player and created two separate attacks that bypass mitigation Microsoft put into IE 7 and 8.