My friend called me last night and asked if I knew any good viral removal tools because he got a virus on his computer and his McAfee was not catching it. He described the virus as taking over the computer, changing his background, the computer windows clock was displaying “virus alert” among other strange behaviors. We determined through research we were dealing with AntiVirusXP2008.
Here is what Norton says about AntiVirus2008
Type: Misleading Application
Name: AntiVirusXP2008
Risk Impact: Medium
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Behavior
The program must be manually downloaded and installed.
Here is a screen shot of AntiVirusXP2008
This info below was on http://hubpages.com/hub/XP-Antivirus regarding more specific behaviors.
XP antivirus 2008 behaves differently on different computers depending on at what stage of installation it’s been caught, but generally the appearance of XP antivirus pop-ups can end in:
- desktop icons and folders messed up or disappeared;
- Start button and taskbar disappeared;
- user’s settings corrupted;
- desktop background wallpaper changed;
- annoying screensaver you’ve never seen;
- disabled Task Manager;
- Windows Clock appearance changed;
- Windows unable to boot;
- Internet Explorer not working.
