Let us start with how DownloadWare, a piece of adware, gets onto your computer. There is an ActiveX control called Active Install. This ActiveX control will download DownloadWare, MediaLoads, or ClipGenie onto your system. All three of those programs are the same thing, just under different names. You could also have chosen to download the [...]

There is a new threat to your computer floating around called DSrch. Today I’m going to share the information that my research on the threat has turned up. I do this because I have an intense dislike for adware, spyware, malware, and Trojan programs. I feel that they are made just to create problems for [...]

One of the things I hate most is when I download a program and I don’t get what I thought I was getting. That is the very reason that I hate SpywareScrapper. I purchased it in order to defend my computer from spyware, but all I got from it was a bunch of trouble.
Like most [...]

Of all the rogue programs out there, I hate rogue antispyware programs the most. They are liars and they always work themselves into a computer and eventually ruin it. Spyware Scrapper is no exception to these fraudtools. But thankfully, there are real antispyware programs out there that can destroy Spyware Scrapper and all of its [...]

A few days back, I got infected with the AllSum Adware program. It was really hard to get rid of, at least until I found the right program. Here’s my story.
I found this media player program that looked really good. The best part for me was that it was a free program. [...]

It’s altogether too common of an occurrence that people encounter rogue software and get convinced that it’s actually helpful. Bogus security programs like Extra Antivir prey on Internet users and are only out for one thing—their money.
They don’t offer any level of security; in fact, quite the opposite. These programs infect computers with [...]

When I first got infected with Spyware Guard 2008, I thought it was maybe a real antispyware program. I came to find out later that it was not a real antispyware program, and even worse, that it was spyware! After what I had found out, I felt lucky that I was only out [...]

The Internet is virtually crawling with scam artists. Some will even go so far as to make your computer sick so you will buy their cure. It’s almost like the snake oil salesmen from the Old West. The creators of pcprotectioncenter2008 definitely agree with P.T. Barnum that there’s a sucker born every [...]

The makers of rogue security tools will apparently stop at nothing to seem legitimate. Take Antivirus 360 for instance. There is a real security program out there called 360, which they’re apparently trying to capitalize on.
Aside from legitimacy differences, the real 360 is an all-encompassing (albeit rather pricey) anti-malware suite, whereas the fake [...]

Antivirus Plus is yet another in a long list of deceptive programs called corrupt security tools. This program pretends to be an antivirus program that just suddenly appears and lets you know that it just happened to see you get infected with viruses.
A good rule of thumb to observe is that unless you have [...]