Do you know how to get rid of the Personal Anti-virus program that is actually a virus?
I noticed lots of people have problems with this "program" that is actually male-ware. The trick for getting rid of it they actually tell you in the help section under how do I get this program off my computer. It tells you to go to c:/program files/and under Personal Anti-virus in the folder there is an uninstall. Unfortunately by the time we found that, it had already deleted some programs (games, internet explorer) that need to be re-loaded. When this virus hit me I ended up having to take it back to Best Buy and they had to completely wipe everything and start from scratch. So I wanted everyone else to know before it gets to that point. Has anyone found a way a good way to keep it from coming back?
We have XP in this house hold. We don't like Vista.
"Personal Antivirus" is the name of the program. It looks like a real virus removal program but it sneaks into your system with out being asked and tells you, you have virus' and have to buy the program to get rid of them. By then it's gotten into your system and is very difficult to remove. I have web-root spyware now, but want to know if anyone has found anything better to keep out this malicious program.