There are some legitimate programs with nearly the same name. There is Norton Antivirus 2008 and Panda Antivirus 2008 but this was just plain old Antivirus 2008. I'm not entirely sure how it came to be on my computer. It seemed to just pop up and offered to check my computer for viruses. I obliged and in short order, it told me I had 43 viruses on my computer. For $59.99 I could purchase the program and it would clean the viruses up.
It established a couple of icons on the Desktop, one for the program and one to un-install the program. The icons looked similar to the AVG icon. It offered to print a report of the 43 infections, so I agreed. Here is a partial listing shown in bold print:
Antivirus 2008 system scan report.
Report generated 05/05/2008 11:49:58 PM
Infections found: 43
Spyware
autorun
Trojan-Spy.HTML.Bankfraud.jk
This Trojan program utilizes spoofing technology. It is made as a fake HTML page. It is designed to steal information from Postbank clients.
Backdoor
C:\WINDOWS
Backdoor.Win32.Katien.a
Katien is a backdoor trojan program. The trojan itself is a Windows PE EXE file about 50KB in length and written in Microsoft Visual C++.
Trojan
C:\WINDOWS\system32
Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Small.ie
This Trojan opens web pages without the knowledge or consent of the user. It is a Windows PE EXE file. It is 640 bytes in size. It is written in C++.
Backdoor
C:\WINDOWS
Backdoor.Win32.DSSdoor.c
This Trojan program provides a remote malicious user with access to the victim machine. It is a Windows PE EXE file. The file is 419 969 bytes in size.
It went on for about 40 more listings indicating how badly my machine was infected. I was pretty worried but it seemed to me that it had come to this conclusion rather rapidly and as I pondered what to do, my AVG (free edition) warned that it detected a virus. Did I want to remove it? I agreed and a second later it asked again. Again I agreed.
Except for the icons, the program Antivirus 2008 had been removed by AVG. I was lucky, but it's something to remember. Since then, I have checked the internet and found that there is a bogus program by that name...something for everyone to keep in mind.
I was bitten by Antivirus 2008
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