How to Remove Rogue Anti Viruses

As you may already know, rogue anti viruses are the most popular form of computer viruses. Basically, rogue anti viruses pretends to be a anti virus by telling you that you have a bunch of made up viruses and you have to give the anti virus your credit card number so it can remove it. Some can be more fierce then others. Some of these can hold your computer hostage and if you don't give them your credit card number, it well delete a file that allows your computer to boot.

Some of these rogue anti viruses can be really hard to remove, but most of them can be removed using this method.

1. Download, install and update Malware Bytes Anti Malware.
2. Do a quick scan on your computer. This may take a while.
3. After it's done, click OK and see what it removed.
4. Reboot your computer
5. See if you still have it on your computer.

If you're still having trouble, go to bleapingcomputer.com and post on the forum asking for help with the virus you have.

You can get infected by these nasty pests by installing it willingly, or getting hit by a drive by download. A drive by download is a JavaScript code that finds a security exploit in your internet browser and downloads and installs the file without you knowing. Another way to get infected, is a fake internet pop up saying your computer is infected, would you like to scan it with "Rogue Antivirus"? Clicking OK or cancel will take you to the fake website that pretends to scan your computer. After you see all of the fake viruses it found, it will force you to install there meaningless phishing software.

Most rogue anti viruses pretend to let the viruses "infect" your computer. This can result in changing your wallpaper, hijacking your internet browser (changing homepage and blocking access to normal websites), not letting you run certain programs ect.

Another way you can get infected by rogue anti viruses, is through your friends! They just don't know it. There is a popular facebook virus going around where your friends account get's hacked and posts on all of there friends walls saying "haha, u should check out this funny vid of u *posts link*". When you click the link, it does a drive by download to your computer, and activates the virus it installed next time you reboot. But the worst part, it tells you your session on facebook has expired, and you have to give them your email and password so you can log in to facebook again. When you give it to them, they now have your email and password, and your account starts posting on all your friends walls with the same message.

There is also another popular virus going around where it's the same thing, but through an AIM message. It sends you a message saying "dude, check out this vid *link*" The link you click looks a lot like youtube, and says flash player is out of date. So you download what you think is the flash player, but is really a rogue anti virus.

There is many ways to get infected by rogue anti viruses, so you always have to keep an eye out on ANYTHING that doesn't look right.