Questions tagged [rogue-security-software]

This showed up on the family XP box today, with all MS security updates applied, along with free versions of ZoneAlarm and AVG running. If you need a culprit, it might be the young neighbor who installed some video-burning software, but I'm looking…

My computer never got infected with a virus before, because I'm using Web of Trust browser plugin, sandboxie and Avast Free antivirus. But today, it got infected with a rogue security application called antivirus.net. I have already removed it using…

I didn't do anything stupid like run random .exe or visit questionable websites, but as I was just Googling I get infected by Antimalware Doctor. At that point I just shutdown my computer and reformatted, so I didn't check if I had the latest…