Milestone Antivirus

Wireshark Antivirus used to count on the people’s knowledge of security products in order to trick them by using a popular name for the scam. Milestone Antivirus is a new clone of Wireshark Antivirus and it comes equipped with the same configurations as its predecessor. It means that Milestone Antivirus is a dangerous rogue antispyware application, which can cause the affected computer system to crash, if it is not taken seriously.

Whichever way Milestone Antivirus might enter the system, when it is installed, it performs certain configurations to the computer so that the rogue loads automatically every time the user turns his computer on. Then it performs a fake system scan and “finds” dangerous items such as Trojan.VBS.Qhost or Trojan-Downloader.JS.Remora. These are old existing Trojans, which have been detected and categorized by various antivirus programs and online encyclopedias a long time ago.

If the user tries to remove the threats, Milestone Antivirus asks to enter activation key, so that full protection would be activated. However, the activation requires paying for the program, and that would simply lead to the overall rampage through the user’s bank account – with the banking information exposed the hackers would access the account anytime and the user will be left penniless. That is why, one must ignore all the fake security messages that he receives from Milestone Antivirus, including:

Security Warning
Your computer continues to be infected with harmful viruses. In order to prevent permanent loss of your information and credit card data theft please activate your antivirus software. Click here to enable protection.

To see what data this error report contains, click here.

There are no real threats in the affected computer save Milestone Antivirus and this rogue must be deleted as soon as possible. The user can remove Milestone Antivirus manually, but this task might be too demanding, especially as the rogue makes use of the genuine Windows processes and the user might delete an important program thinking it is associated with the rogue. Instead of that, it is recommended to acquire a good antimalware tool which would terminate Milestone Antivirus automatically.