Remove Rogue Anti-Spywares

There are dozens of legitimate anti-spyware or spyware removers, but there’s even more rogue anti-spyware programs which are actually spywares in disguised. It seems to be the latest trick used by malicious parties to spread the spywares, by capitalizing on our fear of spywares to spread the spywares.

In my line of work, I’ve come across a couple of such spywares which has been quite active in circulation lately. Some spywares will just resides on one’s PC without doing any harm to the user but some are just notoriously annoying and may turn your PC into a zombie. It seems like Spywares are becoming a bigger threat on the internet than viruses these days.

Once these spywares creeps into one’s PC, it would constantly pop-up warning with an icon on the task bar notification that looks like a Windows Security Alert. It would then direct user to download a rogue anti-spyware program at a cost to remove the spyware. I’m not sure if this rogue anti-spyware program really works, I’m just not buying it. Even the browser home page would also be hijacked.

Anyway, I’ve tried many legitimate anti-spywares programs to remove it (improper removal of most spywares would affect the proper operation of the PC’s operating system), but most free and trial version could only identify it or could not remove it completely. I’ve found a great tool called SmitFraudFix that could remove Spywares such as SpyLocked, SpyGuard, VidCodecs etc. that displays the symptoms I’ve mentioned above for free.

While this would clean the system off the spywares, preventive measures should always be taken to prevent spywares from creeping into our system. Anyway, I’ll leave that for my next post