Talk:Spyware Protect 2009

I would just like to say that wikipedia completely changed everything that i wrote here. The only words it kept were remedy and avast.

This is valuable information
I'll try to edit the main page as time permits and add references. However, please do not delete the entry! It's extremely valuable.

This rogue program often results from the highjacking of a web site which is then modified so it redirects to the malware source. The resulting popups are so convincing that all but sophisticated users will click on them. Once that's done, the resulting files are difficult to remove manually and for reasons I am not aware of, most antivirus programs do not clean them out.

One program which does and which I tested is Malwarebytes. I have not evaluated Avast, the one in the main article. Malwarebytes is free from malwarebytes.org. To be sure of complete removal, some recommend that after Malwarebytes is downloaded and installed, you disconnect from the internet, run the program in safe mode, and turn off system restore. In the two instances I encountered, Malwarebytes removed this malware in a single pass.

One user I helped had already sent his credit card information to the program authors. I encouraged him to contact the credit company and cancel the charge (which they did). They also recommended that he cancel the card and obtain a new one.

This pest is highly non-trivial and this article is well worth completing. Sorry I don't have time to do it at the moment. I can be contacted through maryyugo [at] yahoo [dot] com.Maryyugo (talk) 03:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)