Virtumundo Threat Level:

Virtumundo — AKA Virtumonde — is adware that launches annoying popup ads on your PC. Virtumundo popups pimp fake anti-spyware like SysDefender, WinFixer, and ErrorSafe. Virtumundo can also act as a keylogger, and record every keystroke you type, save this information as a DLL file (virtumundo.DLL, perhaps?), and send it to a parent site, putting your personal and financial information at risk.

Virtumundo is also known as Virtumonde.C, and “major rip-off.”

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Win32/Adware.Virtumonde Threat Level:

Win32/Adware.Virtumonde is a fake threat that appears in popups and desktop warnings by fake antispyware XP-Guard.

“WARNING! Spyware detected on your computer! Install an antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer.
Warning! Win32/Adware.Virtumonde
Warning! Win32/privacyremover.M64.”

Is Win32/Adware.Virtumonde dangerous? Win32/Adware.Virtumonde might have been a serious threat, once upon a time. Now, Win32/Adware.Virtumonde’s biggest danger is scaring you into wasting $39.95-$79.95 on XP-Guard 2.1.

You’re not really infected with Win32/Adware.Virtumonde — you’re infected with scamware that you need to remove.

I’ll show you how to get rid of Win32/Adware.Virtumonde and XP-Guard 2.1, for free.

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Win32/privacyremover.M64 Threat Level:

Win32/privacyremover.M64 is a fake threat that appears in popups and desktop warnings by fake antispyware XP-Guard.

“WARNING! Spyware detected on your computer! Install an antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer.
Warning! Win32/Adware.Virtumonde
Warning! Win32/privacyremover.M64.”

Is Win32/privacyremover.M64 dangerous? Win32/privacyremover.M64 might have been a serious threat, once upon a time. Now, Win32/privacyremover.M64’s biggest danger is scaring you into wasting $39.95-$79.95 on XP-Guard 2.1.

You’re not really infected with Win32/privacyremover.M64 — you’re infected with scamware that you need to remove.

I’ll show you how to get rid of Win32/privacyremover.M64 and XP-Guard 2.1, for free.

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“Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup Threat Level:

“Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup is a fake security alert from fake antispyware. “Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup popups could read:

“Warning! Spyware detected on your computer! Install an antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer”

This “Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup is supposed to scare you into buying the fake antispyware. You may have caught this “Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup by a drive-by download, or getting tricked into downloading a fake video codec.

Unless you like getting ripped off, don’t download the software the “Warning! Spyware Detected on Your Computer!” Popup links to. The only spyware you’re infected with is fake anti-spyware that you need to remove.

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VirtuMonde is adware that launches annoying popup ads on your PC. VirtuMonde popups pimp fake anti-spyware like SysDefender, WinFixer, and ErrorSafe. VirtuMonde can also act as a keylogger, and record every keystroke you type, save this information as a DLL file (virtumonde.DLL, perhaps?), and send it to a parent site, putting your personal and financial information at risk.

VirtuMonde is also known as Virtumonde.C, and “major rip-off.”

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Virtumonde.DLL is a DLL associated with adware Virtumonde.

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WinFixer is rogue anti-spyware software. WinFixer may display annoying reports of false system errors and spyware parasite threats. WinFixer may do this in attempt to trick you into buying a “full-functioning” version of WinFixer to fix these problems. WinFixer may launch every time you startup your system and may also install other questionable software onto your computer. WinFixer may also be related to Virtumonde.

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