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Personal Antivirus Program is a scam!

Last answer on Sep 20, 2009 12:02:18 am BST James, on Jun 11, 2009 2:32:15 pm BST 
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Hello,
This morning an uninvited Personal Antivirus program came to bluff me about my pc infected with hundreds of Trojan Virus and Worms. It asked me to buy their software to erase such Trojan Virus and Worms and it meant that I would have to disclose my credit card identity to pay for it, right? My McAfee Total Protection which I bought from my pc store in person last year to be installed in my pc had quarantined several Trojans and I was asked to remove the generic fakealerts created by the same Personal Antivirus program when I clicked on Restore stated in my McAfee Total Protection navigation column. You'd see Personal Antivirus is created by a group of hackers who is well-versed with software programming and they are out to scam everyone they could lay hand on. Please report such problem to all bloggers worldwide that such an old method of scam has emerged again and they'd always change name to avoid detection. They are the devils and they are the angels as well. Do not reveal your credit or debit card numbers to such scammers. Do not log onto other sites to look for a purchase of Trojan Removal Tools at all. Just follow my instructions first. Please inform all your banks to freeze your account for a time being without further delay if you did a mistake. It may be difficult to check where they hide their illegal program in our registry. I managed to remove their scammers' program by clicking on "Start" at the task bar to look for "Help and Support” and clicked “Undo changes to your computer with System Restore" to do time-travelling back one day when I failed to find anything in the "Control Panel" to check for Personal Antivirus icon possibly being downloaded inside "Add or Remove Programs". It was unlikely inside there because I didn't download such program at all. Please change all passwords of your Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others once you have successfully removed such scam by my suggestion of "System Restore". To prevent inconsiderate intrusion again, please enable firewall when you switch off your computer. Do not worry about your business website as the datacenter of your hosting company is protecting your online business data all the time. Be wary of more such future scams. Please spread the news to others as I did for you. You’d see, such scammers have ready Customer Support Specialist to take advantage of loophole of the International Law concerning internet matter. I threatened their “support team”and they emailed to me very soon but I had restored my system earlier back to normal. Don’t be so kind to such rude internet marketers at all. They’re simply hypocrites! They are disturbing our peace and our business with too much climbing over our heads. If they have shops selling Personal Antivirus Software, must they resort to such filthy act to create so much nonsense to tarnish the image of their own lucrative business. Believe it or not, I suspect many other software companies are willing to help you remove Personal Antivirus are themselves behind all these business tricks. Just be careful!!!

They sent me an email finally when I threatened them with something but Anna Hamilton is a fake, see below:
#218770 Re: Personal Antivirus product inquiry
Dear customer,
Thank you for contacting Customer Support Center.
Please follow my instructions to uninstall Personal Antivirus
1.Open My computer, choose Disk C;
2.Find C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\PAV\Uninstall.lnk
3.Run the Uninstall file.
4.Reboot your computer.
There are other options to find the uninstall file:-paste the following string to Windows Explorer address bar and execute it (Press Enter key):
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\PAV\Uninstall.lnk
or
Start->Run->C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\PAV\Uninstall.lnk
After that our product will be removed.
If you have any questions concerning our software, please contact our Customer Support Service.

Anna Hamilton,
Customer

Configuration: Windows XP Internet Explorer 8.0

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bshe41, on Jun 11, 2009 3:51:32 pm BST

Hye you should never download and use these software!!! Never give your personal details, credit card and codes! Uninstall these software! and use another antivirus

I will advise you using AVG antivirus and AVG antispyware

Link:

http://free.avg.com/

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DJ77, on Jun 12, 2009 2:10:25 am BST
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Personal Antivirus removal guide: http://www.geekpolice.net/...

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jijigren, on Jun 12, 2009 3:22:05 am BST

You can remove it . Here is the guide to remove Pav Personal Antivirus http://thecooltools.blogspot.com/2009/05/remove-pav-personal­-antivirus.html

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Noni, on Jun 12, 2009 4:54:55 am BST

Well Said Mr James.
personalantivirus is a fake rogue spyware program . its a scam tool. if anyone infected by personal antivrius, use this manual removal guide to get rid of this virus http://darfuns.com/spyware-removal/personal-antivirus-fake-s­pyware/

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dre, on Jun 14, 2009 1:58:52 am BST
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I completely fell for this, and i also bought it!! i felt like i complete idiot and was so mad because i used my moms credit card, i went online to see if this was a good buy and found out it was a scam! even made my stomach hurt, i read that i should restore my computer and it will be completely erased, i did so and it appeared to be gone, i just want to know if it is completly out of my computer for good? and also i called card company and they told me they had already charged the money which was 60 dollars! these people are evil!!

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bud, on Aug 8, 2009 4:49:35 am BST
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How do you restore your computer to get rid of personal anit virus

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Lewis W, on Sep 1, 2009 11:26:21 am BST

I diddnt even download any programs for this!

WARNING: SEEK DIFFERENT ADVICE IF YOU HAVE ALLREADY TRIED TO DELETE IT ANOTHER WAY

1)open "My Computer" and C:/Program Files/uninstall

2)here there should be the stupid little icon of gold sheild titled "uninstall".

3)double click it and it shall run an un-installation process and finally remove it permenantly

this way worked for me. i would run AVG or whattever you have afterwards to remove it.

by the way, warn all your friends about this horrible virus

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Jay, on Aug 29, 2009 9:45:43 pm BST

My wife ended up with this scam on her computer and my daughters computer as well.... I talked to me neighbor and he said it was a scam and it is an easy fix... just go to http://www.malwarebytes.com and download the free program and run the scan and remove all checked items and then make sure you reboot your system... Removed everything from both computers and it was also easy to do!

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Jay, on Aug 29, 2009 9:49:39 pm BST

Sorry the web site address is actually http://www.malwarebytes.org

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Lewis W, on Sep 1, 2009 11:28:48 am BST

This is the easy way of removing it without downloading anything

1)open "My Computer" and C:/Program Files/uninstall

2)here there should be the stupid little icon of gold sheild titled "uninstall".

3)double click it and it shall run an un-installation process and finally remove it permenantly

this way worked for me. i would run AVG or whattever you have afterwards to remove it.

by the way, warn all your friends about this horrible virus

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 Ramon, on Sep 20, 2009 12:02:18 am BST

Yeah they are trying to scam me to! i downloaded something random and my computer got invested WILDY, then total protection came up and scanned my computer and it tried to get me to buy it! i was wondering how did it get installed on my computer?? its actually happening right now.. i have no clue how to get it off!

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