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free-viruscan.com

26 June 2008

Updated: July 12, 2008 

free-viruscan.com is a browser hijacker that disguises as a legitimate Windows warning message and redirects user to a Windows Explorer cloned website. It will then prompt user to download protection software.

Aliases:
IE Antivirus

Risk Level: Low

File Size: Varies

Affected System: Windows

Common Symptoms:
1. Display “Spyware Found” window and “Hardware errors”

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59 Comments »

  • 1 }
    webmaster (author) said:

    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.

    Note: MALWARE may prevent mbam-setup.exe from downloading and running. You can download and rename this program from a different computer before running it on infected system.

    26 June 2008 at 2:27 pm
  • 2 }
    Satish said:

    Thanks a lot!

    30 June 2008 at 7:47 am
  • 3 }
    yuki said:

    thanx a lot. i just remove the virus!

    1 July 2008 at 4:38 am
  • 4 }
    Jonas said:

    Thanks a lot.

    2 July 2008 at 3:09 pm
  • 5 }
    avijit@hotmail.com said:

    thnx the lot!!!

    3 July 2008 at 5:29 pm
  • 6 }
    Svet said:

    now that was helpful :D thanks!

    6 July 2008 at 7:45 pm
  • 7 }
    Caz said:

    This was mothing short of a life saver! *Thank you*!!!

    7 July 2008 at 9:26 pm
  • 8 }
    Steve said:

    Thank you very much. Worked great!

    8 July 2008 at 6:20 pm
  • 9 }
    Madide said:

    Thank you very much. thanks a lot…

    8 July 2008 at 6:56 pm
  • 10 }
    recho said:

    OMG u did it guys !! thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!! this F**n thing was giving me a hard time !!!

    9 July 2008 at 7:15 am
  • 11 }
    raveromeo said:

    muckdoomee is correct 100% had the exact same problem suffered with it all night till 5am. downloaded a zip file that had setup.exe that did nothing but give trouble. This is an annoying explorer/website hijacker, every time I wanted to click on a folder in windows explorer it gave me warning that spyware was present and needed to be scanned right away.

    bullsh@t. so I searched and found the link to http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs/2008/06/26/free-viruscancom/

    which led me to Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware 1.20
    link to download is http://www.precisesecurity.com/tools-resources/adware-tools/malwarebytes-anti-malware/

    this worked great no more hijacking occured back to normal after a reboot. malware found it as a trojan fakealert a registry key entry so the average user is not gonna get rid of this by himself you need this man… save sometime.
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! download the malwarebytes.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    by the way I did have spybot s@d, advanced windows care ver2, spyware terminator, ccleaner, tune-up utilities 2008, spyware blaster, spyeraser,cwshreader, and none could detect it. also used spyware doctor (but wanted to be registered to remove anything) and also have Avast as anti-virus program. ( I love my avast but since it was not a virus It did not find the sucker, but that’s ok the malwarebytes got it lucky for me. whew!!

    10 July 2008 at 1:10 pm
  • 12 }
    wan said:

    why bro ur so helper me thx

    10 July 2008 at 1:27 pm
  • 13 }
    Duane said:

    WORKED GREAT!! on free-viruscan.com, tried for 2 hours before this. Thanks

    11 July 2008 at 3:13 pm
  • 14 }
    Gibzy said:

    Thank u very very much!!! You save my life!!!

    11 July 2008 at 6:13 pm
  • 15 }
    Ph4yd3r said:

    Thank you very much works 100%

    12 July 2008 at 6:25 pm
  • 16 }
    Isaac said:

    Awesome… Just awesome… I ran Norton 360 twice, and it didn’t detect anything… I was getting so frustrated with that popping up every couple of seconds… Thank you so much for your help!

    12 July 2008 at 10:32 pm
  • 17 }
    ExistenceGuest said:

    i hope it work for me

    14 July 2008 at 6:00 am
  • 18 }
    Rafs said:

    I will frame this page and hang it up!!!! tried SpyDoctor et al no joy Thanks Guys this worked

    14 July 2008 at 9:55 pm
  • 19 }
    Vasu Ramanujam said:

    Thanks guys. It worked for me too!

    16 July 2008 at 5:53 pm
  • 20 }
    Tony said:

    Thanks so much! This definitely works great! Norton 360 and Spyware S&D didn’t detect anything so I got really frustrated until this. Thanks a lot!

    16 July 2008 at 10:56 pm
  • 21 }
    Paul said:

    phew it worked. Thanks v much…

    16 July 2008 at 11:39 pm
  • 22 }
    shri said:

    Hey thanx it worked

    17 July 2008 at 6:11 am
  • 23 }
    mad max said:

    Great Programm, Thank’s

    17 July 2008 at 11:42 am
  • 24 }
    Zahid said:

    Thank you very much. It worked wonderfully well.

    17 July 2008 at 6:08 pm
  • 25 }
    Juri said:

    Thank you very much.
    it did save my day :)

    19 July 2008 at 1:32 am
  • 26 }
    JD said:

    I tried Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor and Norton 360 and none of them could remove this trojan!

    I then tried Anti-Malware and it removed it right away!

    Thanks for the advice Webmaster!

    19 July 2008 at 6:21 am
  • 27 }
    Rosary said:

    Thank you very much
    I can sleep well

    20 July 2008 at 3:35 pm
  • 28 }
    Peter said:

    It work§ Thanks you very much!

    20 July 2008 at 8:28 pm
  • 29 }
    YoshiMax said:

    OMG, thanks so much, It worked!
    I tried Spybot and AVG 8.0, and neither worked.
    I don’t know where I’d be without you!
    Thanks again!

    21 July 2008 at 12:00 pm
  • 30 }
    bluefairy said:

    Thanks! It worked.

    21 July 2008 at 1:36 pm
  • 31 }
    mismoose said:

    tyvmuch…i couldnt download it to that computer cause of that stupid virus..but was able to jump drive it from another…rebooting now…you ROCK

    21 July 2008 at 2:25 pm
  • 32 }
    crazy said:

    OMFG, I used Safari to be able to connect to the Internet. That damn program I could not do anything. Someone should put those people at free-viruscan.com in jail. Bastards.

    Thanks a lot for the help.

    22 July 2008 at 4:37 am
  • 33 }
    Emre said:

    OMG :DDD Thank you so much it is working:D

    23 July 2008 at 5:31 pm
  • 34 }
    FromArgentina said:

    TNX, I cant belive I got infected. This malware has several variants,so I tried the fixed for those and were not helpfull at all, ’till I found this post.
    BTW: how is it possible that this ppl still have a .com domain ? Once this is reported as a fraud, the domain should be removed inmediately…

    24 July 2008 at 11:24 pm
  • 35 }
    Srikanth said:

    I have sen many forums where people were following so many steps – this is probably the best answer. Gr8 work!

    28 July 2008 at 9:29 pm
  • 36 }
    Jesse said:

    I downloaded the setup but when trying to run it, I receive an error stating I don’t have priviledges.

    30 July 2008 at 7:15 pm
  • 37 }
    Unreal said:

    Thank god you have posted the link to the best malware removal program invented! I am SHOCKED that free-viruscan.com is getting away with this type of malware infection. I wish someone would create a reverse malware that attacks their servers.

    30 July 2008 at 7:39 pm
  • 38 }
    Homerboy said:

    thanks, I have windows vista with norton internet security, and I have a pain, because I cant remove this trojan, but with this program “mbam-setup.exe” already remove this problem, now I can conect to internet and click everywhere and I dont have this nagscreen wanted to conect to this fake site. the program found 9 problems ( 9 registry problems) and fix it all !!!
    Iam seriuos and I only say : THANKS , THANKS THANKS , VERY VERY THANKS FOR THIS HELP !!!

    30 July 2008 at 11:48 pm
  • 39 }
    Michael Burkes said:

    thanks, but i just used HIJACKTHIS to remove it

    1 August 2008 at 12:14 am
  • 40 }
    chandra kanth mitte said:

    thanks a lot annayya…..

    2 August 2008 at 3:15 pm
  • 41 }
    zero said:

    worked great, thanks alot.

    4 August 2008 at 2:38 am
  • 42 }
    loi said:

    Thank you very much. It’s working.
    I thought I’ll die.
    Thx

    7 August 2008 at 12:08 am
  • 43 }
    NathanB said:

    Works 110% – saved our business PC’s from any downtime!

    7 August 2008 at 5:30 am
  • 44 }
    crackky said:

    helped me !!

    the spyware doctor didnt remove this crap ,

    gr8 !!!

    10x!

    11 August 2008 at 7:27 am
  • 45 }
    lancetong said:

    thx bro….this software helps me a lot…it really nice to use….thanks u so much

    12 August 2008 at 2:36 am
  • 46 }
    Darren Phillips said:

    We have Norton and it didn’t fix the problem so we’re going to give this a try. If I don’t post back, it worked. We run Windows Vista Home Edition and get the pop up everytime we click on something (to open a folder) and internet explorer crashes.

    12 August 2008 at 4:21 pm
  • 47 }
    pingo said:

    couldnt do a thing, no browsing or downloading but
    just do a quick restore and it removes it

    click:
    start>help and support>..undo changes to your computer with a system restore.

    and they even had a google branded page on one of the pages saying download it here

    13 August 2008 at 1:29 am
  • 48 }
    smarty said:

    Hey,,,,,,,, it removed some registry like viruses…….but after reboot whenever I click on any folder then same problem……..please help me.

    13 August 2008 at 8:04 pm
  • 49 }
    Terry said:

    You just save the day. Is working 100%. No more troubles with these pop ups.
    Thank U a lot. You saved my PC from format action…

    13 August 2008 at 8:30 pm
  • 50 }
    VforVendetta said:

    I am Hero.and u are my hero.

    15 August 2008 at 10:54 pm
  • 51 }
    cr355 said:

    Many thanks guys – you are heroes.

    Those ass-wipe free-viruscan low lifes will get one helluva kicking if I meet them on a dark night.

    16 August 2008 at 10:47 am
  • 52 }
    dkingsb said:

    On August 8th, my PC was infected with free-viruscan.com. McAfee anti-virus (runs silently in the background) with my Comcast account didn’t detect it,nor did their virus-scan detect it. I updated SpyBot (I usually update it once a week to several times a month) and Spybot caught it, and blocked it. Don’t always depend on anti-virus programs – you need many tools as protection – what a sad thought!

    18 August 2008 at 2:35 am
  • 53 }
    malandro said:

    Worked!

    19 August 2008 at 9:56 am
  • 54 }
    NP said:

    Many thanks! :) Avast and Dr.Web didn’t found the trojan.

    20 August 2008 at 10:00 pm
  • 55 }
    Marlon said:

    WOW. ur the best!!!!
    WOHOOO.
    it really annoys me when it shows up.
    God bless u. more power

    22 August 2008 at 8:07 am
  • 56 }
    Davi said:

    it works perfectly…..
    thanks and god bless you…

    23 August 2008 at 9:00 am
  • 57 }
    Varun said:

    this is great!!!
    it just helped me. wow! thanks.

    6 January 2009 at 5:42 pm
  • 58 }
    wadiaa said:

    thx

    22 June 2009 at 9:12 pm
  • 59 }
    Max said:

    I keep getting the pop-ups even while running the scan and the scan was unable to detect it.

    15 March 2010 at 1:32 am

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