Vista Anti-virus 2012

A new family of rogues consisting of Vista Anti-virus 2012, XP Antivirus 2012 and Win 7 Antivirus 2012 has been making their presence felt. Vista Anti-virus 2012 will change its name to adapt to its environment. If the user is running the Windows Vista operating system, the rogue will keep its name as Vista Anti-virus 2012, and should the user be running Windows 7, the rogue will change its name to Win 7 Antivirus. Although the names may change, all versions are exactly the same application.

The fake software will launch various fake system scans, and will warn of fake threats being present on the system such as P2P-Worm.Win32.Duload.a and IRC-Worm.DOS.Loa. It will also report on genuine Windows files as being infected, and should the user delete these files it will cause permanent damage to the system. Vista Anti-virus 2012 will offer to get rid of the reported infections, but only once the user pays for its worthless software.

As a further attack on the system Vista Anti-virus 2012 will generate false security alerts, which will state that the user’s PC is infected with various dire infections. Some of these fake alerts read as follows:

System Hijack!
System security threat was detected. Viruses and/or spyware may be damaging your system now. Prevent infection and data loss or stealing by running a free security scan.

Stealth intrusion!
Infection detected in the background. Your computer is now attacked by spyware and rogue software. Eliminate the infection safely, perform a security scan and deletion now.

The ultimate goal of Vista Anti-virus 2012 is to fleece you out of your money. Never pay for any Vista Anti-virus 2012 product, and do not believe any correspondence received from the rogue. Instead take back control of your PC and destroy Vista Anti-virus 2012 immediately. This can best be achieved by making use of a genuine security tool which will also protect your PC against similar future attacks.

Update:

The rogue removal will be easier if you used these activation codes to “register” the rogue:

2233-298080-3424
3425-814615-3990
9443-077673-5028

This rogue is particularly annoying because right after the installation it blocks every single exe file and you can no longer run your computer. Then there is nothing else left to but to restart your computer. When you do, while it boots press F8 and select to load the Safe Mode with Networking, so that you could download SpyHunter from our website. Then restart again, and load your computer in Normal mode to install SpyHunter. Another way to install the program is to download it on another computer, rename the installer file from installer.exe to installer.com and then transfer the file into a USB flash drive. Plug the drive into the infected computer and use it to install the program.

Once SpyHunter is installed, it will scan your computer and detect the rogue, and kill it.

NOTE: Just because you can no longer see the rogue it does not mean that it doesn’t exist. Perform a full system scan to locate and terminate all of its components, because any file associated with the rogue can leave your computer’s door open for other malware.