Vista Antivirus 2008

[wapo4]

How can I get rid of this constant pop-up on my computer? It started about 2 weeks ago and I can't find any way to uninstall this or turn it off. I normally use Symantec and it has not detected this as a virus. However, I have gone into all the Windows Security areas and turned off everything possible and this window still pops up constantly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[smah]

Start with this anti-malware tool

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

After cleaning, with this run a couple others from the FAQ's to be sure you're fixed up.

 

[xit]

Check in the FAQ'S under how to remove antivirus 2008-2009

xit

 

[kjv1611]

As a side-note, I can at least tell my experience with basically the same thing, I think.

Last Saturday, I was almost finished installing/customizing a new computer for my church. Well, right at the very end, Micro Antivirus 2009 showed up out of the blue on the computer, and gave some warning/error messages and all.. icon in the task tray.

Anyhow, I think I got rid of it pretty quickly by just looking for suspicious tasks, and killing them, and at the same time, letting both Windows Defender and AVG 8 remove everything they found, including a reboot required by AVG to remove some. After the reboot, there was an AV icon on the desktop as well as a dirty pictures link or something like that. I manually deleted those, and it seems everything was clean.

But I don't like to assume anything, and since it was a new setup and for our church, I decided I'd just go ahead and wipe the whole thing and reinstall again. I'd hate for something to pop up 3 months down the road knowing I coulda zapped it from the get go.

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