Fake Anti-Virus Software
You might have seen something similar on your computer or possible a friend’s computer. What you are viewing right now is called Rouge. Rouge is a very dangerous virus that can infect your computer with a fake anti-virus program such as the one above. The program is design to trick you into believing the program is real and that you are infected with those viruses. The program will take you to a website to pay for the software which then they will steal your credit card information. The fake anti-virus industry is a million possible billion dollar industry. Rouge is so powerful it can sometimes disable most popular anti-virus solutions. So far we have seen it disable Norton, MacAfee, Trend Micro, and a few others. In this day of age you need more than just an anti-virus to protect you. Our suggestion is having your favorite anti-virus software running with a powerful spyware solution. We suggest is to run Super Anti-Spyware or MalwareBytes. SAS and MWB are the two programs we use to remove the Rouge fake anti-virus from our customers computers. If you are infected with Rouge, or notice your computer is running slow. Download and run the latest Super Anti-Spyware and MalwareBytes to run on your computer. If you are not running an anti-virus solution we suggest running Kaspersky or the paid edition of AVG. The free edition of AVG does not come with live active scanning which is required to catch Rouge.
Super Anti-Spyware: www.SuperAntiSpyware.com
MalwareBytes: www.MalwareBytes.org
Kaspersky: www.Kaspersky.com
AVG: www.AVG.com
Laris Technologies is not liable for issues caused by this tutorial. Use at your own risk
