Getting rid of Antivirus 2009

At least once a week I get a phone call from a friend or work college who has accidentally downloaded Antivirus 2009, Antivirus 2008 or Doctor Antivirus.  These are really nasty spyware programs that embed themselves deep in the Windows registry  trying to dupe innocent folks out of their hard earned cash and capturing their credit card details etc.

There’s a really quick way to remove them using Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware which even it’s free version will purge your Windows PC of this trash, click here to download and run it.  Once loaded all you’ll need to do is run a quick scan and then reboot. I would then recommend you then choose the update option and run a full scan Scan (some Spyware tries to disable the update process hence why I suggest you do the scan first before updating).

Moe detailed instructions are here if you need them.