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What is Antivirus Live?

Internet is no longer safe and scammers are inventing newer ways to scam naive PC users. Not all people using computer are technically expert and thieves are taking full advantage of this. Antivirus Live is a rogue (fake) Anti Virus program. When your system gets infected with this software, It will show you fake security alerts and trick you to purchase the full version. It will scan your computer every now and then to show you some fake infections. It will show you messages saying that your computer is on very high risk but all the messages are fake. This software shows those fake message to threat the user so that he buy the program.

Once a user purchase the program, It will stop showing fake infections but then it will start showing your fake Pop Us, Advertisements are ask you to buy more updates, upgrades etc.. This is all scam and never pay money to these thieves. It is not the only fake Antivirus software but there are lots of other similar software as well so please be careful.

How Antivirus Live Got on My Computer?

There are lots of ways your system can catch this dangerous software and some of them are described below :

1. If you download freeware and shareware products from un-trusted sources, your computer can get infected. Usually Spywares are bundled with the software and this is why they are free. The developers of those programs are making money by threatening users with fake alerts.

2. Many people surfing on Internet wants to get things for free and use P2P sharing networks, visit torrent websites, download files from rapidshare and other similar networks. When you use the free software, downloads and other files downloaded from those networks, your computer can get infected as those files are bundled with the Spyware.

3. If you visit questionable websites for serials, cracks and other similar things, you are at a very serious risk. Shady web sites can install Antivirus Live through security holes and automatic downloads, such as video codecs, mp3 downloads, screensaver download and lots more.

How Notorious Antivirus Live Virus Is?

If you see a screen very similar to this, you can be sure that your system is infected with this very obstinate software. You need to take proper actions to remove it from your computer as soon as possible. as you can see in the screenshot below, It looks like the software is scanning for your computer for Virus, but at the end It will show you numerous infections and ask you to buy the software if you want to remove those infections. Don’t fall for this trick and don’t pay for it. Instead, pay for a genuine Spyware software which will always protect you from such threats and won’t let any scammers play with your computer’s security.

All fake Anti Virus software have one thing in common. They bug the user to purchase the program again and again. The software will start scanning your computer itself and show you fake infections. The software will threat you like never before and ask you to purchase the full version to remove the infections. If you fall for this scam, your money is gone. The software are designed by some professionals who specialize in scamming people with various methods. This fake software is just an example of that, there are countless ways these scammers can play with your computer’s security. They are aware that most people are not aware with Spyware Removers and they take full advantage of it.

Some other indications of Antivirus Live and Other Similar Threats

Slow Computer Performance
Annoying Unwanted Pop-Ups
Taskbar Warnings (from right side of the screen where clock is located)
Internet Browsing Re-directs and Hijacks
Warning and Infection messages whenever you run a trusted program.
Unable to Open the Register, Internet Explore or Task Manager.
 High Pressure Marketing techniques asking you to “Purchase Full Version” of software.

How To Remove Antivirus Live Manually?

There are two methods to remove Antivirus Live. You can remove it either manually or automatically. Manual Removal is not recommended unless you are a computer savvy. You need to do several critical operations during removal of Antivirus Live and a minor mistake can cause your computer to stop working.

1. First of all, please start your computer in safe mode. Running your computer in safe mode is very important for Antivirus Live removal. In safe mode, Windows doesn’t run the autoexec.bat or config.sys files, so if a malicious program has made the entry is one of those files, It will not be able to load.  The only startup programs loaded are the operating system and drivers for the mouse, keyboard, and display modes display. To start computer in safe mode, press the F8 key while the system is booting and select "Safe Mode" from the menu that appears.

2. Run Internet Explorer, Click Tools -> Internet Options. Select Connections Tab and click to Lan Settings button. Uncheck "Use a proxy server" box. Click OK. Click Apply. Click OK.

3. Press "Alt+CTRL+Delete" keys of your computer to run task manager. Now select "Processes" tab and end the processes associated with Antivirus Live. In processes tab, please look for all the processes having "sysguard.exe" string in a right side and "O4″ in a left side. Please end all those processes by right clicking on the process and selecting "End Process".

4.  Now download a Spyware Remover like Spyware Doctor and scan your whole computer for any infections and repair the registry according to the findings. If you face any trouble installing Malware Byes software, please rename its installer file to any name and then retry. Antivirus Live tries to prevent the installation of this malware remover so renaming the file should help.  It is very important to remove everything related to this spyware from the registry, otherwise It will return in no time.

5. Please also search your whole computer for *sysguard.exe and you should find suspicious files in these locations
Username–>Local Settings–>Application Data–>[RANDOM]
Username–>Local Settings–>Application Data–>[RANDOM]–>[RANDOM]–>sysguard.exe

Stop Antivirus Live Processes:

[random]sysguard.exe

Remove Antivirus Live Registry Entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:5555″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“

Remove Antivirus Live Files (search for *spyguard.exe in your whole computer and delete related files)

[random]sysguard.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[random]sysguard.exe

To get rid of Antivirus Live automatically, It is highly recommended that you use Automatic Removal tools like Spyware Doctor. If these removal instructions are not working for you, please post here so that we can try to help you further with Antivirus Live Removal. Though Malware Bytes Anti Malware software should get rid of Antivirus Live in few moments. Just scan your computer and everything will be alright.

Spyware Doctor is a very powerful and effective adware and spyware removal software. It is made my PC Tools and they are widely known security experts. The main user Interface of Spyware doctor is very clear and you won’t have a problem in understanding the program’s basic features. Most importantly, the product is very effective is removing threats and In our tests we found it detecting and removing all the malwares, adwares and spywares from our computer.

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We’ll discuss about each and every aspect of this software in Spyware Doctor Review.

Ease of Setup

It is very easy to download and install the software. You need to follow some very basic steps during the installation and you can install in like a charm. You don’t need to customize any settings during the installation and you’ll get it running very easily.

Ease of Use

Spyware Doctor’s main screen is designed in a very professional manner. The creators of this Spyware remover have chose the program colors very wisely and Its user interface looks very nice. In left side of the screen, It allows you to change the scan settings and run a Spyware Scan on your computer. It also shows If the real time scanning of Spyware’s is on or Off. This helps you in making sure that you are taking full advantage of the software. Real Time Spyware protection blocks spyware as soon as they are detected so there is no chance that your computer will get infected with real time Spyware Protection On.

Detection and Removal Effectiveness

We have tested it on some very nasty spywares which are very hard to get rid of. To our surprise, Spyware Doctor effectively detected all the spywares and removed them from our computer without a hitch. During the scanning process, Spyware doctor checks all the running processes, Windows Resgistry, web brower cookies, All Files, Brower Plus Ins, Folders and other critical system components. It offers two scan modes, Full and Quick. It is always a good idea to perform a full scan after first installation of Spyware Doctor. After that, you can run a full scan whenever your computer is idle according to your requirement.

Spyware Doctor provides regular updated definitions and currently contains more than 30,77,000 intelli-signatures in the database. Such huge database allows Spyware Doctor to  recognize and eliminate practically any kind of spyware and adware infections, trojans, keyloggers, backdoors, tracking cookies and other similar threats.Detecting Spyware is not the hard part but the main thing is Removal Effectiveness. Some spywares are so nasty that It is virtually impossible to remove the manually. Spyware Doctor removed those spywares, Fake Antivirus software without any problems.You need to run a full scan of your system and without eating too much resources (like other products does), It found all the Spywares which we intentionally installed on the computer for testing purpose. Spyware doctor’s detection and removal process is very effective and removes spyware permanently.

Use of System Resources During Scanning

Spyware doctor is not a resource peckish software. When you are doing a full scan of the computer, It needs a little bit of more resources and It can run effectively on almost all computers. During our testing, we noticed that If your computer’s memory is less than 1 GB, you should leave your computer alone while running a full scan. This will ensure quick scanning and removal of any detected spywares. It is understandable that checking every file for more than 60000 Spywares will consume some resources of computer.  Though If your computer has more memory, you can perform a scan and work simultaneously without any problems

Scanning Speed

The scanning Speed of Spyware Doctor is quick but not the fastest. There are some products in the market which scans the computer in few minutes but don’t detect the real Spyware Threats. So we firmly believe that Scanning Speed is not more important than detecting Spywares and Removing them.

Conclusion

PC Tools is a very reputable company and Spyware doctor is a great program for detecting Spywares, Adwares and other similar threats. The program detects all Spywares, removes them from your system and provides you with a Real Time Shield. With Real time shield, It is very unlikely that your computer gets infected again in future. You just need to make sure that you update the database of Spyware Doctor often.You can have the software auto update the database for your convenience. It is a very effective Spyware Remover software and worth buying. This program is worth every penny If you want to make your computer Spyware Free. Make your computer invincible to all the Spyware Threats. We hope this Spyware Doctor Review was very helpful for you.

Welcome to XoftSpySE Anti Spyware Review. I’ve been using this Anti-Spyware product myself since 6 months now and my system is totally spyware three. I’ve gotten rid of all the suspicious Pop UPs, Adware, Malwares from my computer and it runs pretty smooth and fast now. You would never know how your computer got infected with the Spyware. Even If you don’t surf internet or your computer is not connected to Internet, you can still get infected with Spywares. Almost everybody lends CDs from friends, family, here and there and you never know which CD is infected. Even downloading Games, Videos, emails, MP3s, Screen Savers can infect your computer seriously. If you don’t have a Spyware Remover installed on your system, you will know just nothing.

What is Spyware?

I’m pretty sure you know what the word “Spy” means. It means “A Secret Watcher”. Spyware is a type of malware that is installed on computers and collects information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user. Spywares are secretly install on the user’s computer without their knowledge.

If you take the simple meaning of spyware, it is monitoring the activities of a user without their knowledge. However, the functions of spyware extend well beyond simple monitoring of user’s activities and spyware programs can harm your computer very significantly. Spyware programs are extremely dangerous and can collect various types of personal information, email information, logging credit care number, Internet surfing habits and sites that have been visited, but can also interfere with user control of the computer in other ways, such as installing additional software and redirecting Web browser activity. Spyware is known to change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds, different home pages, and/or loss of Internet or functionality of other programs. Spywares keep downloading harmful software to your computer and make your PC extremely slow. You may have seen instances when your are not surging or downloading anything, still your ADSL modem shows huge activity. If this activity is continuous, It would be good to scan your system for spywares.

How does Spywares Get on My Computer?

Just for the information, Games, video, email, banner ads, web sites, and MP3 downloads can contain spyware. Many surfers online are looking for Games, Videos, MP3s, Screensavers and they can get spyware from downloading these. Spyware can harm your computer is many different ways. Spyware applications keep running in the background and monitor your activity as what are you doing on computers, the information you are filling in online forms, you name, email, credit card number and other very sensitive information which you don’t want to share with anyone. Those bad guys who are spreading the Spyware get your personal information.

How Does Spywares Harm Me ?

Now you must be wondering what they do with your information? Those guys sell your information to others, its that simple. They can sell your personal information as many as a thousand times in a single week.  They can share your credit card information, banking information, name and address, email address book, and whatever else they can use is sent out to criminals all over the world.  Then your information is used to create phony credit cards to buy merchandise, apply for loans, commit online crimes, create phony driver’s licenses and ID cards, create phony passports, apply for jobs using your Social Security Number and send Spyware-infected emails to everyone in your email address book – posing as you. Spywares can fill your computer with malicious software which interfere with your working your computer, make your PC slow as tortoise, Sudden restart and hanging of your computer and lots more unusual stuff!

Those Spywares can even get information about Personal relationships. What else to say? It is essential to make sure that your computer is spyware free.

XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware Review

I started using XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware in June 2009 when I thought my computer is suspicious. It was running darn slow and suspicious Pop ups (which I had never seen before) wanted me to buy some software. I kept getting messages like “Your Computer is Infected, Click here To Download Powerful Anti-Spyware”. Clicking on “Yes” button took me to a website which looked suspicious and I was lucky not to fall for that.

After researching for Genuine Anti-Spyware products, I found XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware and all of my worries were gone in an hour. If found nearly 63 Spywares and tracking cookies on my system. I was kind shocked to see the results. After removing all the Spywares and starting my computer, I experienced that the speed of my computer increased by 100% and the internet Speed also increased dramatically.  When my computer was infected with Spywares, the spywares themselves keep using a big chunk of my bandwidth resulting in low speed for me.

XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware 7.0 is easy to install and use. Its common sense interface puts the full features of this powerful software in your hands. You simply choose the scan you want and XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware 7.0 goes to work. It will scan deeply to find all kinds of malware, threatening to steal your identity and credit card information, bombard you with advertising and monitor your online activities. As well, it will help keep your PC running right by removing malicious code that can slow you down.

This sophisticated software is jam packed with features to protect you and your PC. An innovative Browser Helper Object Editor will remove all of those aggravating toolbars and other add-ons that just clutter up your browser. XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware 7.0 also features a Startup Editor that lets you manage which programs launch when you turn on your computer. As well, the advanced scheduling feature makes it easy for you to ensure your PC is protected.

Features and benefits for you to enjoy:

• Removes wide variety of spyware, adware, pop-up generators, keyloggers, Trojans, hijackers and malicious code
• Thorough scanning of your PC, including registry, files, folders and running processes
• Frequent updates from our ever-growing database to ensure you are protected against emerging threats
• Browser Helper Object Editor that blasts away unwanted add-ons that clutter your Internet browser
• Advanced scheduling options, so you can automatically run any scan type you need, at any time you need.
• Startup Editor lets you disable unwanted programs from launching at start-up

What is Zlob.Media.Codec Trojan?

The Zlob.Media.Codec Trojan is a malicious program that pretends to be a media codec that is required to watch certain types of video files. This Trojan is a program that typically purports to be a needed upgrade to Windows Media Player in order to view adult oriented videos on certain websites. However, Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec actually downloads and installs additional malware on the user’s machine.

How does it harms your computer and steals your privacy?

It will continue downloading spyware programs on your computer that monitor what you do on Internet. It will also create pop-up advertisements and ask you to buy fake software. A Trojan Downloader is a program typically installed through an exploit or some other deceptive means and that facilitates the download and installation of other malware and unwanted software onto a victim’s PC. A Trojan Downloader may download adware, spyware or other malware from multiple servers or sources on the internet.

It is possible to remove this Spyware manually. You can search your computer but unless you are a tech-geek and have deep knowledge of the removal process, It is not a good idea to remove files. You may end up removing the wrong files and make the situation more miserable.

To To save time and effort, we recommend you to download a FREE Scanner. Not only you can remove Zlob Trojan Downloader but also It will protect you in real time from any spywares. We would strongly suggest you to scan your whole computer for other Spywares as well. Download this free Scanner and believe me, the Scan Report may shock you. You’ll never know If you have a Spyware on your system unless you scan your system. Don’t let anyone else monitor what you are doing on your computer!

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