virtumonde

Virtumonde is known to be one of the most prevalent malicious software encountered in the latest period of time. Due to its characteristics and unique way of conducting various system modifications, Virtumonde usually is the result of other auxiliary infections with different forms of malware.
For people asking themselves “what is Virtumonde”, according to antivirus experts, [...]

Having Virtumonde alone is bad enough but when you add in a Smitfraud client like PC Antispyware 2010 it makes for a great disaster.  Most people already know that Virtumode causes pop-ups and a ton of re-directs and adverts but many of the latest infections are also coming with PC Antispyware 2010 as well.
Virtumonde has [...]

If you’re infected with Virtumonde AKA vurtumondo AKA Vundo then the close to 80% drop in infections over the past 6 months is probably not good news to you because you still got infected.
However for most people out there including us we are very happy to report that through the efforts of many people out [...]

VirusResponce Lab 2009 AKA virus repsonve Lab 2009 is related to the AntivirusLab 2009 and almos the exact saem besides a name change.  People who normally get infected with this bogus security software got it from a Trojan virus that is already on their computer.  Once again this is a scam product so do not [...]

Malware Destructor 2009 is yet another fake security product that shows bogus scan results.  this is known as a rouge spyware program.  Those who are infected with this fake security software will also be infected with other items such as virtumonde, vundo zlob and the like.
Some common symptoms people run into are the following

Fake scan [...]

Personal Antivirus
AKA: POV and Personalantivirus is a fake security product none as a rouge antispyware program.  This software falls in the scareware department because it trys to prey on users fear and lack of knowledge.  This is a fake security program that will only show bogus results.  Users should pay no attention to any mesagges [...]

Virus Remover Professional, also known as VirusRemoverProfessional is a fake rogue virus program that shows only bogus results and tries to create fear in the user to purchase the program buy saying things like all their passwords are begin stolen. This fake security product will keep scanning your computer and give annoying pop-ups as well [...]

Over the years this site has written many free guides to help people out in trying to fully remove the virtumonde threat.  The issue is all the traces of Virtumonde keep mutating and now every infection we come across has a rootkit virus that needs to be removed before Virtumonde can fully be killed.
Every computer [...]

With the Virtumonde Trojan still in full swing is seems that many free tools in the past that we recommended have not been updated in several months and do not address the newer strains of Virtumonde.  The two past free tools we also had people download were vundofix.exe and Spybot Search and Destroy.  While both [...]

Just as the Virtumonde strain started dying down it is coming back with great force over the next few weeks and with a new twist. You see in the past people who have been infected with Virtumonde could normally still view websites and they were able to download software to remove Virtumonde and get any [...]