Antivirus XP 2008
By: webmaster | Under: Unwanted Programs
26
Jun
Updated: July 30, 2008
Antivirus XP 2008 is a bogus antivirus application for Windows that was promoted and downloaded automatically by redirecting users internet browser to its predefined website.
Aliases:
Adware.AntivirusXP2008
Risk Level: Medium
File Size: Varies
Affected System: Windows
Common Symptoms:
1. Redirects web broswser and pop-up scan results. It will then prompt the user to buy the licensed software.
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How to Remove Antivirus XP 2008:
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1. Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (mbam-setup.exe) and save it on your Desktop.
2. After downloading, double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.
3. Follow the prompts and install as “default” only
4. Before the installation completes, check on the following prompts:
- Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
- Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
5. Click “Finish.” Program will run automatically and you will be prompt to update the program before doing a scan. Please update.
6. Scan your computer thoroughly.
7. When scanning is finished click on the “Show Results”
8. Make sure that all detected threats are marked, click on Remove Selected.
9. Restart your computer.
Thanks! The removal process worked for me.
Here is how:
Once you have the virus deleted you will notice you are missing the Screensaver and Background Wallpaper TABS in Display Properties. This will prevent you from removing that annoying message or the modified Wallpaper. Here is how you get the TABS back to be able to get rid of the message or stupid Wallpaper:
Manual Steps Using Windows XP Registry…….. be careful
1. Click Start and then Run.
2. Type regedit in the Run dialog box & Click OK.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
4. Right-click NoDispScrSavPage to select Modify.
Change the value to 0.
5. Do exactly the same with the NoDispBackgroundPage entry
6. Go out of the Registry and Restart your Computer
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In Addition this Viral Abomination also goes and disables your System Restore Options
Here are Instructions to correct this:
1. Go to the System Registry (Start Run, type in: regedit and click OK)
2. Highlight My Computer, then under Edit in the File Menu select Find
3. Type RestoreOpenIsSafe and click on Find Next
4. At the Fist Instance of the Entry, Right-Click on it and select Modify………. change the value to 1 (if it is not 1 already, Click OK, then press the F3 Button to search for more of the same Entry
5. At the 2nd Instance of the Entry, do the same
6. There should only be 2 Instances of the Entry but to make sure that you press F3 again and modify any additional Instances of the Entry until you are through the Registry.
7. Go out of the Registry and Restart your computer.
Now your Restore Systems should work again.
Regards
Rudi Geldenhuys
Legal Easy CC - Computer Consultants
Gauteng Province, South Africa
My computer is Ruined by this vicious program, I never authorized it’s installation on my pc, but both “Avast” and “AVG free” antivirus programs Failed to detect it.
Now when I turn on my pc, all the desktop shows is the banner of “antivirus XP 2008″ and nothing else, It just freeze there and cannot do anything, no matter what I do, it just freeze.
What should I do to fix this problem ?
and how do I claim damages from this vicious software maker??
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you able to run in Safe Mode, without it freezing? If you can, you should be able to uninstall it.
Hope this helps…
Hi
Thanks, your advice has been very useful. I was able to remove the Malware. It wasn’t possible with any other anti virus I tried.
Regards
Just to mention one fact. When ever I tried to install the Anti - malware software, my system would freeze. To stop it from hanging, when my system would reboot, I pressed ctrl+shift+esc and then stopped all the applications from running. The system then didn’t hang. Hope this is of some use
Help. I got the system restore back, but I can’t go to a earlyer date. I would ike to restore it sometime in june.
Thank you mate this process solved my problem and i am so happy keep it up.
Regards
Shepherd
UK
I downloaded and ran the anti-malware program and did the steps. It did show in the results but when I restarted, it was still there.
I have the problem addressed in number 3 and followed the directions but for some reason when I change the value from 1 to 0 it doesn’t save. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
Worked first time, complety goen. Task Manager back, system restore seems fine. The only thing I had to do is to screen back to ‘Windows Classic’.
Rudi Geldenhuys, Thank you. I had gotten that awful Antivirus XP 2008 virus. I had gotten rid of it, after about a days worth of work, but couldn’t get rid of the background telling me to download antivirus software. I was missing the two tabs as you mentioned. I went through your instructions and it worked. Thanks.
I think I have cleared off most of it, but I am still locked out of Task Manager, and I am unable to run Regedit (says it’s disabled by the administrator..). Also, it has hidden my main drive(C:) in My Computer, which I don’t know how to reveal again, and it has placed the text “VIRUS ALERT!” in the time on my taskbar. It now reports as “19:22: VIRUS ALERT!”, and this also appears beside MSN messages and many files on my system
Any help appreciated!
Thnx - worked exactly as you said. Thnx a lot.
Last night this F$#$@# Virus got into my system as well..thanks to google i found your forum and followed the instructions…took me 3 hrs but at the end of it the virus was gone…system back on track…
U r a life saver man…cheers
I had this on my system last week… followed the instructions and unfortunatly could do nothing about the intrusion. After sever hours (into the next day) i decided to just say forget it and reinstall the operating system. I took it in due to some issues with the reinstall. Turns out the Hard Drive has fully crashed. The hard drive was fine prior to this virus… it was upgraded 6 months ago.
Not saying it will cause everyone hard drive failures.. but watch for new forms of this.
HELP! My browser refuses to work on many sites. cannot access malware. its like the brower has had many sites blocked to stop me deleting it! I am nearly giving up. have spent days trying to delete it.
I have followed all the instructions to get this malware off my niece’s laptop, but I cannot get the desktop tab back on the display properties box. Also, I cannot change the screen saver as it is grayed out. I have run the anti-malware program, run gpedit to enable the display box tabs, edited the registry, etc. The laptop would not run before and I have it almost right except for this issue. Any thoughts?
Great program. 38 minute full scan, around 160 items removed. thank you
I went through different steps for removal from various sites. Seems my computer is doing ok, when I go online
I can get to my browser but after that when clicking on any searched web site I keep getting re-directed to other sites like antispyware sites. What do I need to change to keep from getting re-directed other than what I click on?
Thank you
the malware program didnt find it when i ran the scan but i found a folder in program files with a name that was a bunch of letters and a few numbers. malware has a program called file assassin and i deleted a part of the program and could remove the rest normally after restarting my computer… i noticed though that my firewall is snow missing in control panel… what do i do?
All went well, except at the end of the scan suggested by #1 i got this error
Hkey_local_machine/software/rhca7gjoe9el
C:/WINDOWS/system32/lphce7gj0el.exe
Could not be removed
should i be concerned?
This is for Rudi Geldenhuys::
I’ve done eerything you recommend to restore the “restore” function & to remove the screen saver, and neither works.
In trying to restore the screen, when I Change both values to “0″, when I reboot the computer, they are changed back to “1″. In safe mode, however, the changes made remain in effect. Unfortunately, I cant stay in safe mode.
For “System Restore”, I cant find these entries. The search in regedit comes up empty.
Im using XP Home (SP2) on a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of memory
Any Help
Thank You
John.
I purchased the Antivirus XP 2008 and several days later it was lost from my computer for some odd reason. Help! Please
Holy crap…this program is good. After a full day of trying to remove this malware myself, it took this program to fully get rid of the files i missed.
got rid of antivirus xp 08 using SpyHunter and
Other accounts on my PC any fine….but
My account still has problems like changing the desktop properties display. response to a right click on desktop is
“system admin has disabled this display function”
It also hides the c drive still.
I want to find and destroy”system admin”
When I log in safe mode, I can’t see my account at the login screen witht the rest of the accounts?
I can however log in as ADMIN
worked perfectly fine for me.
didn’t even have to mess with the registry actually.
thanks! second fucking time i’ve gotten this thing.
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware did the trick! Thank you so much for the help and support. My Trend Micro was not able to remove. All of my settings were fine and back to normal.
Thank you!!!
-chris
I used Revo Uninstaller
(Freeware)
I used this to uninstall the “Antivirus XP 2008″ from my brother’s laptop it’s an excellent program and best of all it’s free i’ve been using this program for quite a long time, it doesn’t just uninstall the program but also removed all the files to your registry that is part of the program that it removed. hope this help.
Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from “Windows Add or Remove Programs” control panel applet.
p.s. click on my name “zaviour” to take you to the website
or you can search it on google by yourself.
just type REVO UNINSTALLER”
I filed a complaint with the federal Trade Commission, FBI , and Finally INTERPOL. This site has partners in Singapore and Russia. more to come
ran the anti-malware and it seems to have removed most of the bad stuff installed by this program but my desktop only allows me to change the desktop color. If I attempt to put a picture (windows provided or not) it thinks like it is going to put it on there but doesn’t just whatever color is chosen. Any thoughts?
Also, Internet Explore fails to load images from sites(ie the google image at its homepage or even the images that show up when a page fails to load or you stop a page from loading and get the Action Canceled page. I have installed and am currently using Firefix and it is running fine (something I probably should have done a long time ago!) Any thoughts on this as well?
update: I found out that when I right click->Arrange Icons By->Show Desktop Icons my image appears. Normally I like to hide my icons and just have a picture up as the background (I like the uncluttered look) but when the option to hide icons is checked it hides my image as well I hope there is some easy fix for this!
Everything is working except my background is not filling the whole screen as it use to when I did the steps of #3 it was already set at 0 for both of them and I have restarted my computer and it still hasn’t worked Also tried it with seperate backgrounds the tan color around the background is annoying Any Suggestions?
What if you can’t access the Task Manager or the Run function from the start menu? How would I remove it without those functions?
Thanks for the help. You’re a lifesaver. For all the security on my PC this one got through. Great job!
I forgot to add that i have no restore points from before i had the infection
What an awesome piece of software. Removed it no hassles first time.
Today I found this site. Too Late For Me. I was sucked into purchasing the program (”Antivirus XP 2008″) to erase the supposedly 1500 viruses that it found in my computer after it innstalled itself without my consent. (I tried to erase the supposedly 1500 viruses with Norton but I was unable. Norton indicated that there were three viruses that it removed.) So I decided to purchase it. I purchased it and it supposedly erased the viruses, but every time I booted up the system it would show a new virus (the same one over and over.) Then I tried to restore my system but I couldn’t. I tried to delete the program (Antivirus XP 2008) but it wouldn’t allow me. I went into safe mode to try to erase it and nothing. So I decided to reinstall the operating system (Windows XP). Now I noticed in my bank statement that these people charged me for three different programs. I am trying to dispute the charges but who knows what will happen. I may end up losing about $90.00.
Just got the virus today, found your site, downloaded and ran the program, seemed to fix everything, didn’t have to mess with anything to get my display tabs back, program fixed it al. TY TY and TY woooooooooh
i had it twice now and had to reload windows twice
im usually pretty good at fixing these things but these guys are good!!!!
top it off there getting rich from it
wonder how many people got sucked into 90 bucks?
ive seen several from different sites that sayed they payed
just think its all over the world
smart mo fo’s!!!!!
hope they get caught!!!!!!!!!
oh and watch out just as i was making progress getting rid of it
antivirus 2009 showed up
i just gave up and dumped everything
on three of my machines
what a hassle
thks for the editing of the registry, it works, my properties tab are back!
but abt the restore system;
1. Go to the System Registry (Start Run, type in: regedit and click OK)
2. Highlight My Computer, then under Edit in the File Menu select Find
3. Type RestoreOpenIsSafe and click on Find Next
4. At the Fist Instance of the Entry, Right-Click on it and select Modify………. change the value to 1 (if it is not 1 already, Click OK, then press the F3 Button to search for more of the same Entry
5. At the 2nd Instance of the Entry, do the same
6. There should only be 2 Instances of the Entry but to make sure that you press F3 again and modify any additional Instances of the Entry until you are through the Registry.
7. Go out of the Registry and Restart your computer.
Now your Restore Systems should work again.
THE PART 4-6 I DON UNDERSTAND, when i find, theres nth, then a pop up will says that searching is complete, is that the progress of these search??
is that all?
I thought that antiviriosxp08 program was the real deal. Got robbed of $49.95 of hard earned money. Who can I contact to try to get my money back??
Thank you to everyone that contributed to this forum. Helped a lot. The world needs more people like you guys.
I received this ugly virus 2 days ago on my laptop. I downloaded Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and it cleaned everything up…mostly. I am still unable to access the internet. I am connected to the access point and have an I.P. address but I am unable to view any webpages. Any ideas???????
This program has completely solved my problem.
I have got no remaining issues at all after just one scan.
Thank you very much.
This thing has ruined my weekend. I’m still in the process of removing it so I hope it doesn’t ruin my computer too. There needs to be prison time and a lawsuit for damages for those responsible. Someone out there has to know who’s responsible.
After using this software my background doesn’t fill the screen, firefox doesn’t work at all, my printer doesn’t work and a bunch of other shit is wrong such as my computer keeps crashing.
I’m now running Malware again hopefully we can fix this.
Thank you, what a great help!
For those of you that have your com crash while the Anti-malware is scanning; I’ve found that if my com goes into screen saver mode then it crashes. The best way I found to get rid of the virus is to DL and install the Malwarebytes software, then in msconfig unclick any suspect programs, reboot, run the Anti-malware and just incase, start up your Media Player and leave something running continously so your screen saver won’t start. Then do the registry modifications to get back the missing display tabs.
One more thing, the Anti-malware is great in that if you abort a scan you, once you scan again, it will quickly get to where you aborted it. So you can pretty much delete the viruses/spyware as you go along.
Good luck everyone,
and thanks once again!
Cheers.
Whenever I try to install the program, it tells me that some file is missing.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware fixed it for me. Thank you thank you thank you!
Natalie of Antivirus XP 2008 support has kindly emailled me as follows:
Thank you for contacting Antivirus xp 2008 Customer Support Center.
Based on the information provided in your letter, you think that our software is fake and can damage your PC.
‘I beg to assure you that this information cannot be proved to be true. The only reason why this information appeared in the Internet is competitive companies’ desire to discredit Antivirus xp 2008. We work for our customers and we cannot afford offering dubious or dangerous products. However, our customers have never complained about problems they impute to us. Our top priority is to satisfy our customers.
Thus, if you really encountered a problem when using Antivirus xp 2008, please specify it and we will do our best to help you in finding solution.
As we understand you wish to cancel Premium support.
Please be informed that your Premium support was canceled.
And from this date you won’t be charged anymore.
Thank you for patience and cooperation’
Erm, yes but who is the mysterious ‘we’??
Used the advice given anti-malware removed this virus fron my laptop however the next day it reinstalled itself i had not been on the internet but had not removed the files from the registry but was in the process of doing so. Im running anti-malware again. i think i will try revo uninstaller also. if anyone has any other ideas please let me know
Thanks you saved my holiday!
Hi the malware program work and removed the virus, I have completed all the steps required as above to repair the system restore feture to date.
Thanks for the help. Got this terrible AntiVirus 2008 XP (don’t know how but I am still upset about it). I found this forum through Google and the download and tips suggested fixed my computer in one try! Before this forum, I tried calling Dell for help and they were going to charge me $150 to get rid of the problem…so THANKS FOR HELPING FOR FREE!!!!
Am i screwed?
i deleted the file with the virus in it so i dont know what to do?
special thanks of you.
Just put in a complaint to the FTC. Funny that while reading all these posts I wondered why it is taking them all so long to get them off the web?? First post was back in June?? I just called the support number of this rogue company and they are still in business??
I finally got another spyware on and my computer is good to go but you wonder what information they got and I am looking to get back my money I spent getting the darn stuff. How stupid I feel. I talked to some tech guys from work and I was explaining about what happened and if they wouldn’t have told me, I would still have these guys looking into everything. I am telling everyone I talk too, to watch out. You think that the FTC would put them out of business and have it on the nightly news??
Did anyone find a solution to not finding “RestoreOpenIsSafe” in the registry search?
Thanks for all the help, this thing was a real bastard. I started removing it manually. Had to go into safe mode a couple of times, because my system froze when I tried installing anti-virus software and then just kept on freezinf everytime I restarted. I finally used Malwarebytes, sceptically, cause I didn’t want to fall for another scam! So now its all seems fixed, I hope.
Only thing is i can’t find that entry “RestoreOpenIsSafe” in my registry, but my system restore seems to be working fine.
Should I be worried?
Thanks!
Thank you so much! I followed the instructions in message 1 and it worked perfectly!
Man, I swear by this program!!! I was soooo pissed that I got that damn virus and it was just annoying and frustrating. Got to this site by some luck and everything is back to normal. This thing SHOULD be worth millions!!!!! Thanks again!!!
Hi tried the malware program.. it took me ages to scan the system, but could not remove the virus
Then tried Revo Unistaller.. Perfect!!
Try this in case you are not able to remove through malware.
thanks Zaviour!! You are a real Saviour
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1. Click Start and then Run.
2. Type regedit in the Run dialog box & Click OK.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
4. Right-click NoDispScrSavPage to select Modify.
Change the value to 0.
5. Do exactly the same with the NoDispBackgroundPage entry
6. Go out of the Registry and Restart your Computer
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When I do that it only shows “ComDlg32″, and explorer?
What do I do?
Pease Help!
thanks a lot it really worked for me, it took 2 hours for me , but its really worth waiting(since it removed 370+)…yeah this thing must cost millions.
thanks again
Thanks! The removal process worked for me.
I used both mbam and the Revo uninstaller. It took 3 restarts to completely eliminate the viruses and worms.
And I got all my display tabs and my task manager back.
It seem forever to remove because my avast was alerting me every 5 seconds about the exe and tmp files in system32
I also had Spyware Eliminator with Clam AV but it didn;t eliminate all of it, so…. Cheers to Rudi and Zaviour on your request and advise. Good work!!!
Thank you so much! I got this one today and spent all morning trying to get rid of it. Browser hijacked couldn’t get anywhere to find help.
Got on my laptop and used that to search for info, came here and got rid of it.
It got by my AVG, then Spybot, Adaware, and CCleaner wouldn’t get rid of it. Spybot looked like it found part of it, but it couldn’t get rid of it for some reason.
Anyway, thank you so very much!
I’d also like to thank everyone involved who helped with tips, techniques and encouragement in helping us non-techies get this Virus/Spyware off our computers. I am usually very careful but this one came out of the blue - attached to a video codec I downloaded from cnn.com (a site I would have thought to be pretty clean).
Almost all my laptop has been purged now - except that I still can’t change the Restore date on my PC. Do any of you have any tips on how I can do that?
Hi,
Thanks for the information, was sitting with a project that I needed to have finished for a deadline when I got the virus attack. The new version (or updated at least) of the Malware program totally restored my computer,no regedit needed at all. The only thing missing is the icon for my network in the start menu (but I can live without that)
Thanks again,
Martin Seehuusen
I uninstalled the virus using the malware removal software, but now I still cannot access any antivirus sites like norton or mcafee, when i click on links from a google search I am directed to unrelated pages trying to sell me stuff, and the defragmenter and disk error checker now no longer work.
I fear that my hard drive has been damaged, and the problems with the internet lead me to believe that either there is still a virus on my system which is an excellent hider, or these are the after-effects of the virus which need to be fixed.
Please help! I have no idea how to fix these problems, short of doing a clean reinstall of XP
cheers
jamie
I was doing research for taking the Caliper Performance test. I was redirected to this site:
*****DO NOT GO THERE*****
httpxx://realonlinevideo2008.com/movies/white/0/25/487/1/caliper%20profile/
*****DO NOT GO THERE*****
It automaticly downloaded and installed on my system. I am in the process of extracting it. I pulled cords out of the wall (router) to prevent all of it from installing and tried to save as much info as possible. This is rediculous. Please find these people and do what needs to be done. Thanks for all of the informative posts. I am running program as we speak.
Thank you Malwarebytes. Worked. It would be nice to track the people that cause these little dilemas and send a little something their way, eh?
Thank you again,
Dave
The tool worked great but i am having an additional problem now my laptop is not diplaying any image anywhere. Meaning i cannot open photos, all that pop up is no preview availible and inside internet explorer as well. Anything that would normally have a photo (even submit buttons) just displays the picture icon nothing more. Any help is appreciated.
also now my symantic antivirus is going crazy with “unable to send your message” pop-ups.
ok so i figured out the internet portion of the situation it has to do with the security settings in ie. but i am still unable to open any jpegs on my laptop.
HELP! I thought I had done everything, and the I get yet another blue screen of death on my Dell Latitude D620: “STOP” c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Windows Logon Process system terminated unexpectedly with a staus of 0xc0000034 (0×00000000 0×00000000). The system has been shut down.” And now, it won;t do anything…what do I do? Any suggestions?
Hoping the program that was recommended will work, sounds like it will with the feedback. AVG and Ad-Aware didn’t. The bad part about the virus is it’s totally believable, until it starts the scanning… then not so much.
That program amlwarebytes worked awesome. no need to mess with my registry or anything. Thank you sooooo much!
i mean malwarebytes LOL
Im trying to get this off a friends laptop a small variation is that it does the same thing in safe mode with command prompt as it does when started in normal mode. It doesnt flash the “you have virus” but it logs off right away. The laptop is a toshiba with windows ME (it not mine i swear!!)
I agree people who write these garbage program should be hung in public executions along with the spammers!!
I got this virus yesterday and was so stressed about how to get it off. The malware program worked perfectly. I only had to change my background (through My Computer) and my laptop was good as new. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you sooooooo much. I took the steps in #1 and it cleared it up for me. Took about 40 minutes to scan my computer, but I did not have to change the registry or restore.
Just an fyi to others. I tried running viruscan through McAffee and that did not work!
Thanks to all again, saved me $129 from Dell!
Rudi Geldenhuys:
Thanks so much. Your instructions to get my display tabs for the screen saver and background back worked perfectly. Thanks again!
i’m following all instruction.. and my computer works well..
87 Responses for “Antivirus XP 2008.Great Thanks its works for me.
1. Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (mbam-setup.exe) and save it on your Desktop.
2. After downloading, double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.
3. Follow the prompts and install as “default” only
4. Before the installation completes, check on the following prompts:
- Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
- Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
5. Click “Finish.” Program will run automatically and you will be prompt to update the program before doing a scan. Please update.
6. Scan your computer thoroughly.
7. When scanning is finished click on the “Show Results”
8. Make sure that all detected threats are marked, click on Remove Selected.
9. Restart your computer.
Got the Antivirus 2008 XP too, real pain in the ass virus, McAfee couldnt fix it, nor could ad aware from lavasoft. What I did was load windows Vista in safe mode and ran a system restore to a check point from yesterday when I didnt have the virus, everything seems to be working fine again.
Hey Rudi. You’re the only one that explained what to do clearly and accurately. Many thanks. I have my desktop photo back and my screen saver. I don’t, however, have the System Restore Options back. Followed your directions, but only one instance of RestoreOpenIsSafe came up and its value was already a 1. Anybody have a solution? By the way, I had to repeat the changes for each user on my desktop computer. Why are these idiots who are spreading these viruses not in prison?
Same problem. Couldn’t get malwarebytes to download but revo uninstaller seems to have worked. I could not get background message off. I plugged in the o’s in step 2 which then gave me the ability to change my desktop again. However I had something called phc5q0j0et7g which was running in control alt delete processes which I shut down. I then did a search and found it as a background in my desktop options. I am still getting an error on start up that says exception Integer division by zero error. I think putting in a 1 in step 3 would solve it but when I run the RestoreOpenIs Safe it doesn’t find anything. Anything else I could type to restore my old settings?
just got this antivirus xp 2008 thing on my vista, didn’t hesitate after i read this thread, downloaded that malware software, ran it for like 36 mins, deleted all the infected files.. i had some 157 of them..lol.. restarted my laptop and now it seems that it runs even faster than before.. screensaver, background pic is back now and everything seems just fine..
This annoying and horrible virus mysteriously appeared on my computer last night. I had lost system restore, had the screaming screen saver on and it kept scanning files and supposedly finding viruses. Google wouldn’t let me in and then my computer kept shutting off saying that it was infected. I tried uninstalling the program 4 times with no success. Finally tried running in safe mode after numerous crashes and I somehow managed to get my Spybot up and running. Because it was running simultaneously with this annoying virus, it took forever to scan my computer. The first time didn’t do the trick because I had been unable to go to Spybot’s site to check for updates. I did realize that if you told annoying virus to leave your computer alone once it was finished scanning, it just started scanning all over again. So I left the virus screen open when it was done for the 3rd time and let Spybot finish the job. I manually changed my screen saver and desktop back, and have been able to set up system restore again as a daily task. Regardless of the fact that my computer appears to be running normally now, this entire cleanup process took about 10 hours, encompassed part of this morning as well, and I don’t think I’ve sworn that much in a long time.
These people should be seriously punished.
i followed the instructions found here. while running the scan with malwarebytes, the antivirus xp 2008 window pops up yet again. this caused my system to freeze. tried ctrl-alt-del with no luck i was forced to hard crash. now my computer will not load windows xp in any mode safe or otherwise. it just runs a boot up loop. i hate to have to reformat. any advice would be appreciated
thx eric
While scanning with malwarebytes, the blue screen of death pops up. but its actually a fake screensaver that shows the blue screen, changing to the windows startup and then it loops all over again. So just use alt+tab to make windows switch back to your malwarebytes scan window. This antivirus xp 2008 is pretty tricky…
I fell for this crap too! I called the customer service number to cancel the bocus anti virus software and spoke with an asian man who breathed heavily. Do to power outages I lost contact and called the number again and got that same person! He assured me that I would be credited my money but I don’t trust him! I d/l the AVG which took care of a lot but I still can’t get the thing off of my computer and the blue screen keeps appearing after I’ve changed it. I’ll try the ma;warebytes. Wish me luck.
Oh thank you. This “antivirus” installed itself somehow on my computer. These instruction helped a lot. I downloaded malwarebytes, ran the full system scan, deleted the infected files, and restarted my computer, just as the instructions said. It worked! I had a blue background screen set to none which I easily fixed. I double checked system restore and background and screensaver tabs. They were there.
Thank you soooooo much!
Major problem with this: I can’t update any anti-malware, anti-virus or anti-spyware software, nor can I initiate Norton. It’s also cut off search engines (fortunately, bar the Yahoo toolbar that I got with AVG which is how i found this place)
I’m hoping that the Malwarebytes scan will pick up on it without me being able to update its directory…the scan’s in progress now, and has picked up 19 objects, so wish me luck.
Thank you so much for your help. This is the only program that helped me out completely
I have the antivirusxp2008.At startup I get a blue screen and a warning spware detected. I cannot go past this point.I cant get to the internet to download any remedie. is there a way to identify and remove this from the registry
OHHHHH!!! MY GOD!!!! this Virus freak me out!!! This program is EXCELLENT. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR RESTORE MY PC!!!! I LOVE YOU
Had to come back to comment… WE ARE NOT WORTHY!, WE ARE NOT WORTHY!….
This Programme just kicked AntiVirus XP’s! Tried Spyware Doctor, it failed, but this programme surprised me. Dark little horse.
Computer back on track!
It’s gone, (I LOVE YOU ALL)….
but….
now none of my (indirect) software will connect to the internet. I can use the internet and instant messengers just fine, but my anti-virus won’t update, (windows won’t download updates either) and my online games won’t work either.
PLEASE EMAIL ME
cjdontthink@yahoo.com
i cant get rid of it!
i tried the program i ran it and restarted what else can i do. little messages still pop up
Try using Revo uninstaller. There’s a link further up the page (number 30)
Thank you this site really helped. What if you only have one listing for RestoreOpenIsSafe instead of 2? Is there a way to fix that?
I too fell for this and purchased the program. I realized AFTER I hit submit for my payment that they were going to charge and additional $9.95 every month, so watch for that!
For everyone that fell for this crap, you can call 866-521-4864 (that’s the number that showed up today on my bank statement) and choose option 2 to cancel subscription. I explained to the lady what happened and supposedly they will refund me the $49.95 and nothing will every be charged to me again from that place. Hope it works….
ATTENTION/= Please be aware that this is an awful virus to get on your P.C. I have absolutely know idea how this got on my system. However after having this removed the tech guy told me there is currently a 2009 edition of this virus out. So please be careful. Take care guys and have a good night!!!
I fell for it too. Thankfully I found this site and was able to call and cancel an hour after subscribing. When I told them I wanted to cancel $49.95 charge, I found that I was also charged $29.95 for something and $24.95 for something else, not sure what. They gave me three confrmation numbers and said that it would take 5-7 days for the refund. We will see.
Thanks Shannon
theres a problem though
i already went into program files and deleted everything i could hoping that would help
ahh
i still get those pop ups
ive searched with three virus progeams and killed all the viruses found its still there
and i dont have any restor points before the virus
Thanks the regedit fixed my display properties. The system restore was not a 0 but it would not let me restore beforehand. Anyhow the Antivirus xp 2008 sure gave me a whirl. I got rid of it but could get the other stuff fixed. Your page here did the trick. Thanks a bunch.
Thank you for your advice.Everything worked as should.
God bless you.
Scanning with Malwarebytes currently for 15 min, and only 4 things found…. im getting worried. Hope this works.
I got this crap on my work computer!! Couldnt get mbam-setup.exe to open. HOWEVER… I downloaded Hijackthis (the latest version) free. (make sure you get it from the trendmicro.com site!!! ITS FREEEE!!! If you never used hijackthis before here’s what u do:
Before scanning your system with hijackthis right click on the antivirus2008xp icon on your desktop. Go to properties-general tab. Look at the name of the file or click go to target…you’ll need to know what to delete from the scan results!!
The scan takes like 3-10 SECONDs!!
Find the file name and delete it!
ALSO make sure to DELETE the back-ups on the main menu page of Hijack this as well as in the ‘back ups’ file located right next to the hijackthis program file whereever you saved it at.
The regedit trick for the background display tab issue WORKS!!
I got this obnoxious virus about a month ago - complete with the fake “blue screen of death” screensaver. Norton AntiVirus had no clue. Spybot Search & Destroy didn’t find it either. I found a forum somewhere that recomended the Malwarebytes program - so I downloaded it and tried it - and that did the trick! I did have to manually modify the registry to get my screensaver and background tabs back though. That was about five hours of my life I’d like to have back.
Last night, the d@mn thing was back! I was so disgusted I just powered the PC down and haven’t touched it since. Just like the first time, my 15-yr-old daughter had been surfing around on my wife’s account (which has admin rights). She says she had only been on MySpace, but who knows. Maybe it came from somewhere on there (or a link from there). She says she didn’t click on any dialog boxes or authorize any kind of installation, so it apparently installed itself without permission. I’d love to know exactly where she got it from, so we can avoid it in the future. Anyway… here’s to hoping that Malwarebytes will take care of it again. I’m also removing admin rights from my wife’s login. I don’t know if that would have prevented this or not, but I’m going to take that step just in case.
What a pain. Whoever is responsible for this should be hunted down and punished severely.
Thank you Webmaster, It solved my problem.
Thank you
Thank you guys buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttt still have the issues with the desktop tabs despite the fact I did what Rudi Geldenhuys adviced to do. I have change the values to 0 and 1 (respectively) but still have no access to the other properties tabs from my desktop. Also, It doesn’t allowed me to go on the internet and browse different pages. Please help !!!, This is my wife’s computer and I am as right now in the brink of an awfull divorce :( Thanks !!!
This along with some manual repairs helped me. One thing I can’t seem to fix is my clock. It won’t let me change it from military time. My settings say it is set to regular time, but it is showing military time. Also, my restore options work now, but all restore points prior to the infection date are gone. Can anyone help me fix these settings?
thanks..it took me 3 hours but finally gone. All this due to following a link to see some olympic coverage and was prompted to download some new video software. ctrl alt del solved the continuous flow of virus warnings my avg was saying. Just deleted it there to start and the rest..3 hrs later..damn
the malware software appears to have worked wonders! Thank you SO much! I spent a good bit of time messing with this before finding this board, once I did it took about 45 minutes to find the remaining 23 infected areas and cleaned them up. I restarted my computer. I have reset my desktop back to the picture I had up before. Everything appears to be good. I hope it is! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
i got this virus when i installed “True Sword” which is supposed to be an av program itself !
It started with a firewall warning from windows about svchost.exe in win32/drivers - maybe this is how it got in, i may have been unfair to true sword, it all happened at the same time.
I have this virus on my computer thanks to my brother. But the problem is, everytime i start the machine up the OS system sometimes doesnt run so I cant get onto my machine to remove it can anyone help??
I have all of my work on here that I cant afford to loose as my origional copy has been destroyed as the server it is stored on at work crashed and lost everything…
Thanks.
Thanks, this is a great way to remove this piece of S%!+ Malware. I’m amazed at how SpySweeper nor Trend micro (supposed) anti spyware/malware program, which I have installed, was unable to stop this attack. Both detected it and told me it has it quarantined it and it would not be able to harm my computer once quarantined: However, this piece of S%!+ malware went to town on my laptop.
I hope the Feds does an investigation on those responsible and charge these crooks with mail fraud, or some sort of internet racketering.
I removed Antivirus XP2008 by spyware removal tools but my audio is still disturbed.It gives message bad directsound driver.error code 887800078. i have reinstalled win xp,sound driver.also tried new sound card but didn’t work.pl help
Like jj (119) above I got the virus from following an Olympic link. I seem to have removed the virus, albeit my desktop is blue, but after a few minutes the screen freezes and I can’t do anything. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Also when the PC goes to the desk top the ProWireless comes up with an error message. What should I do as I’ve now spent all day on this. Thanks
Well, i downloaded the Malwarebytes program on the 14th and deleted the virus. My computer was back to normal for a day and now the stupid virus just popped back up…. The background is different though, so im wondering if whoever made the virus made a new version…….. stupid @sshole.
FYI….I just got this virus today and ran Spybot and it removed the virus. I just had to click on my desktop properties and double-click my old desktop and then the “Antivirus XP” Banner disappears.
Download Spybot for “free” at Download.com
Wow, my bitdefender took too long to scan so i downloaded the malware thingy and it WORKED PERFECTLY! Thanks for making it guys and DONT fall for the scam. If you had 1043 viruses on your computer it would explode…
I got this virus today and instantly realized something was up. The desktop on my computer changed to a blue screen that said something about viruses having been found and that I should buy an anti-virus program.
I ran the malware suggested above and it worked as far as I can tell. Thanks SO much!
I’ve been struggling with this problem for over a week. The Malwarebytes download seems to have cleared up the problem.
Many thanks,
gatorcpa
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Edgar from Aug 14th says that Spybot didn’t clean his system…It did mine today! I would suggest updating your Spybot with the latest detection files and run it again. Spybot worked. I didn’t have to touch my Registry, which always extremely risky.
By the way, I’m using Spybot - Search & Destroy version 1.6.0.
malware link does not work anymore
My son downloaded antivirus 2008 onto his laptop. Downloaded malware as detailed above and ran the scan. The internet had been disabled by the trojan so could only run without an update. Did enough to get the laptop up and running again plus the internet. Did an update and full run afterwards which cleared out a few more. The first run cleared out the wallpaper also without need for further work.
great malwarebytes. after eight hours of struggle, thispiece of malware has gone away completely.
im pretty sure i deleted the anitvirus but now when i do what it says to get the background to normal i do it then we i restart the values go back to 1 and when i restart it the background i changed it to pulls up for about a minute then goes right to the antivirus background does this mean i havent deleted the virus all the way or what
Beautiful. This definitely works.
Tried this solution and it took a 40 minute scan, but everything works fine now. This program is great. Thanks a lot.
Life saver. Last night I was working on some projects (due today) when I got the virus. It wreaked havoc on my system - couldn’t even type more than a few lines .without some notice popping up. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware solved it all after a full system scan. It even found other malware on my system that I didn’t know about and that adaware, spyhunter, and windows defender didn’t catch.
Thanks again.
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thank u so much…worked for 2 hours last night to no avail, and this took about 10 minutes…
Hi, i found the program files and in due course deleted them, hence removing the virus it has not come up again however some effects still remain, notably the browser is still hijacked How do i stop this?
hey i got this scum virus yesterday.worked for about 4 hrs last nite tryin to get rid.found this site via google ,followed the instructions and all is fine now after an half hour scan.did not even have to mess with my display settings.
Thank you very much.I have been able to fix XP2008 malware with Malwarebytes tool.It really worked fine and the system is efficiently restored.
You can positively rely on this tool.
Thank you SOOOOOOO much! So mad that I got this @%$# virus over the weekend. It stills show up in Safe Mode. Just downloaded Spybot from download.com on a usb thumb drive & diff PC and it got rid of the whole #&@$*@$ thing without requiring me to do anything else, not even regedit. WoooHoooYeppie!! Deepest thanks to people on this chat and SPYBOT!!! But I had to disable the virus from startup first by doing Start->Run->Msconfig and unchecking all funny looking task names I am not familiar with. After Spybot is finished, all desktop themes returned and I was able to get rid of their fake background warning screen. Hope they catch these bastard criminals for causing so much griefs and extorting money from people.
When I turn on my computer the screen is blue with a warning telling me the computer has a virus, there are no icons on the desktop, and the start menu is missing. I absolutely cannot do anything using the keyboard and there is nothing to click on using the mouse. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this??????