Quote Originally Posted by nihil
Somehow............it doesn't matter what the vector is; a program gets loaded on your PC. It has done so with admin rights and "looks" like a normal application. That is the problem...............none of your stuff will see it as malicious, because, in all truth, it is not. The malicious bit is when it tells you that you have X, Y and Z malware running and there is that small matter of the child pr0n you are hosting??????????????? get the picture?? so you are invited to send them $25 or whatever, get a full licence, and it will remove the offending items...............
Indeed and they are trully a pain to deal with...

There are some others specific tools to remove them like smitfruadfix and delpsguard that deals with PSGuard and variants but I think that this is the first I see that deals with more than one which is quite handy.

Their database is based in the same philosophy that spywarewarriors' rogue-antispyware list which have tested almost every software related and keep a good and updated database of them


The big problem with this rogue software is that they're very atractive and convincent at the same time to the eyes of the novice user. The method of infection is quite large, I remember some time ago they were loaded in several pages usin javascript language which excecute a remote installer with the only need that the user use the primary page just one. Another method that has become very popular this days is the codec-method, the user is prompted to download and install a codec to see an specific movie content.

One big big problem is that most users say yes to everything

In the other hand, antivirus (and even antispyware) software do nothing or too little and that's because they actually don't have to. Those rogue software by their self aren't virus (not all they to be real), once installed they "can" download virus remotly without user know about it or can just prompt the user to install them telling that is software needed to save their system

Again, the problem is, users say yes/ok to everything...

I don't have tested the Pro version of rogueremover to see what offer that free version no and how well works, I really hate buying software knowing that free of charge and open source software exist, but if any have tested pro version, please comment.


The free version is complete enough from my pov, the database is quite large and as I said, this is (at least to me) the first app that can detect/remove several rogue software at the same time, so it have my vote




Regards