Thanks daayglow

Oh great, I just bought Spyware Bot, should have signed up to this forum first!!!

I'm being nagged by a site advertising VirusProtect Pro. One of my boys opened an email, and . . . well . . . here I am with this problem! It's popping up a warning every few seconds. Really is making me nuts!

I've downloaded a couple of programs recommended here, but apparently have to buy them in order to have them actually clean my PC. Spyware Doctor and Spyware Blaster.

Spyware Doctor has detected a bunch of problems, but I just don't have the money to go for it right now. I was using Panda but when I tried to renew my subscription, I had problems with the shopping cart and couldn't renew. Emailed them for help, but haven't heard anything in days, and now my protection's expired. I am at the moment using a trial version of NOD32. I hope it's okay! It doesn't seem to be able to do anything about this problem, however.

I'm figuring VPP isn't a good place. This is the page he got taken to:

VirusProtectPro :: Home Page

Sigh . . .

NeenahDee

Hello, thanks for the information! I've disabled the live link you posted so that members do not accidentally click on them.

I'm puzzled...most of the programs recommended here do detect and remove even if they are commercial products... What are you exactly refering to?

If you do need any help with removing VirusProtectPro, follow the Prework link in my signature and post a new thread with the required logs as attachments.

Hello chiaz!

Well, they probably do the job after you pay for them. They did a scan, but no cleaning. Or at least Spy Doctor did. SpyBlaster, I'm afraid I couldn't figure out how to get it to work! I thought it was a trial as well, if not free, but it didn't seem to want to help me without being a registered version.

In any case, I downloaded the trial of AVG, which I had no trouble figuring out, and that did get rid of it.

It also got rid of a ton of other stuff the other programs missed in their scans. Now, I will be buying this program in the very near future! Probably today!


NeenahDee

All,

The beginning of this thread is a typical experience of a user, even one as savvy as NeeNahDee, who has fallen for one of the unscrupulous companies that claim to be Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware programs, and are in reality malware. You click thinking you are going to look into the program, and the next thing you know you are infected.

There are also the variety of equally malicious programs that offer you free scans and return false positives in order to trick you into purchasing their software.

The best way to avoid running into these scams, is to only install software from a trusted source, and never click on a popup window that claims you have a virus, or offers to scan for virus'.

If you do find yourself plagued by one of these rogue softwares, fear not, for the Security Team here at PCHF is here to help!

Just post in the New HJT forum after following the instructions found in Prework and we WILL disinfect you.

Regards,
Crush
Security Team Leader

just so you're aware... you don't "have" to purchase AVG if you're using it for personal use - its free

you may, out of gratitude, want to patronize the AVG company - and that's great


but you should know you don't need to