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| Jan 6 2009, 9:59 PM EST (current) | antispyware | 2 words added, 1 word deleted |
| Jan 6 2009, 9:54 PM EST | antispyware | 488 words added |
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Antivirus 360 is one of many fraudulent programs collectively called corrupt security tools. These programs use spyware and aggressive sales techniques to convince people that they need to buy their software. Actually, it’s more accurately paying to get infected.
Antivirus 360 is a particularly clever build for a corrupt security tool. Its creators decided to portray it as being a legitimate program by simulating one. There are some obvious differences, though.
Antivirus 360 uses scare tactics to sell their product, while the real 360 quietly sits on its website and on shelves in computer stores and waits to be bought. Antivirus 360 infects computers with spyware, while the real one doesn’t.
Also, the real 360 is an all-around security package, while Antivirus 360 only claims to be an antivirus program. Of course, one is legitimate, while the other has false claims.
The way Antivirus 360 approaches its sales is appalling. First, you get infected with a Trojan Downloader called Zlob. You get a pop up screen telling you that your computer is infected. They will also count up your temporary files and call them “infected.”
Then your browser gets redirected by a Browser Hijacker to their website. By now, the original page won’t be reached by most people with a legitimate antispyware program, so the web address won’t match the site. Here, you will be told that you need to buy the full version of Antivirus 360.
What’s more, it won’t allow you to leave. You can click the “No” button, you can try to browse away, but it will hold you here. Don’t worry, there are ways out without paying them anything. You can use ctrl-alt-delete to close the browser. You can turn your computer off. Whatever you do, just don’t buy Antivirus 360.
If you do, you have just opened yourself up to a worse possibility than being infected with Antivirus 360. With everything I’ve said about it being corrupt, what kind of person would be receiving your credit card number? Do you think they would just stop with the asking price for it? Would you want to risk it?
If you did buy it, and only managed to spend the asking price, what do you get with Antivirus 360?360? You got a grossly ineffective antivirus program. It didn’t come with a virus vault, so it cleans nothing. If you clean all the spyware off of your computer after this infection, you just have a junk program for all that work.
Luckily, there are programs like SpyZooka out there. It’s really the best program available. It has a 100% removal guarantee and 5-star ratings from all the ratings companies. The greatest feature of SpyZooka is the constant Web scanning that looks for new spyware. The promise behind the guarantee is that a spyware fix will be delivered within minutes of the parasite’s release. No one else does this, so no one else can make that claim.
Antivirus 360 is a particularly clever build for a corrupt security tool. Its creators decided to portray it as being a legitimate program by simulating one. There are some obvious differences, though.
Antivirus 360 uses scare tactics to sell their product, while the real 360 quietly sits on its website and on shelves in computer stores and waits to be bought. Antivirus 360 infects computers with spyware, while the real one doesn’t.
Also, the real 360 is an all-around security package, while Antivirus 360 only claims to be an antivirus program. Of course, one is legitimate, while the other has false claims.
The way Antivirus 360 approaches its sales is appalling. First, you get infected with a Trojan Downloader called Zlob. You get a pop up screen telling you that your computer is infected. They will also count up your temporary files and call them “infected.”
Then your browser gets redirected by a Browser Hijacker to their website. By now, the original page won’t be reached by most people with a legitimate antispyware program, so the web address won’t match the site. Here, you will be told that you need to buy the full version of Antivirus 360.
What’s more, it won’t allow you to leave. You can click the “No” button, you can try to browse away, but it will hold you here. Don’t worry, there are ways out without paying them anything. You can use ctrl-alt-delete to close the browser. You can turn your computer off. Whatever you do, just don’t buy Antivirus 360.
If you do, you have just opened yourself up to a worse possibility than being infected with Antivirus 360. With everything I’ve said about it being corrupt, what kind of person would be receiving your credit card number? Do you think they would just stop with the asking price for it? Would you want to risk it?
If you did buy it, and only managed to spend the asking price, what do you get with Antivirus 360?360? You got a grossly ineffective antivirus program. It didn’t come with a virus vault, so it cleans nothing. If you clean all the spyware off of your computer after this infection, you just have a junk program for all that work.
Luckily, there are programs like SpyZooka out there. It’s really the best program available. It has a 100% removal guarantee and 5-star ratings from all the ratings companies. The greatest feature of SpyZooka is the constant Web scanning that looks for new spyware. The promise behind the guarantee is that a spyware fix will be delivered within minutes of the parasite’s release. No one else does this, so no one else can make that claim.
