When it tries to locate and remove the program, my search can only come up with the shortcut, not the actual thing so all that happens is the shortcut disappears! Also, I tried shutting down its programs using the task manager thing, but sav.exe didnt even come up in the program list! I cant find it anywhere! Any other helpful hints to get rid of this thing?

reomoving it from the registry as shown above.

My apologies for the tangent, for most,(the average home PC user) it may be just a little too much. The best advice that I can offer to anyone is as follows:

1. Keep things as simple, if it sounds too good to be true don’t click on, if it’s an e-mail from your long lost friend whose name doesn’t quite sound familiar don’t open it, if you’re exploring sites that you know you should not be, well if you play with fire… and most important of all please, please if nothing else, understand and know for an absolute fact that there are no “Government Agencies” or “Rich businessmen” in a foreign country willing to give you lots of money… for any reason! C’mon people… THINK!!!

2.Do not keep any and I do mean any personal information (account numbers, addresses, SSN, or anything else) about you on your PC, who cares if they hack in if there’s nothing there for them to find? All such information should be backed up on a flash drive or other removable storage device, and that’s only if it’s absolutely necessary to have it there in the first place… most people encounter problems because they simply want the convenience of not having to fill out all of their information each and every time… My question is what is more convenient and a few more seconds filling out a form or having to explain to all your creditors why you no longer have any money to pay them?

3. Remove flash drives, Switch off power to external drives, and switch off power to modem/router, etc. when not in use.

System Antivirus 2008 which was borrowed (cloned) from an earlier version and has now been cloned into multiple versions with many other names was skillfully crafted and put together by talented programmers who want to “RIP YOU OFF!” Do not under any circumstances click on any of the dialogue box options presented, both the yes or no/except or cancel options will all do the same thing… install the software completely on your computer. The best thing to do first tried using task manager to close all running programs, then shut down your computer… on rare occasions this actually works. If you find that the problem persists go to the add and remove programs, if you are lucky enough to find the program actually listed you can then uninstall the program. However, I would not hold my breath chances are it will not stay uninstalled long… by now you are probably getting somewhat frustrated? You have multiple windows opening up, error messages flashing, official looking Microsoft windows and Explorer dialog boxes telling you warble things about people trying to hack into your computer this very moment and everything in between.

Now when you go to simply perform a systemwide search to find these pesky files you begin to find that your system is no longer responding, you have no option but to buy their product! Just remember there are the ones that an infected you in the first place… so you get desperate, you search frantically on the Internet for solutions into your absolute delight there are many gracious companies that understand your dilemma… they tell you how you can remove this threat manually, free of charge! (They’re decent folk!) But they warn you, then they warn you again and again, more than likely you’ll just destroy your computer… so why not scan your system right now for free, and if you like it by the product and they’ll remove all your problems… sound familiar?

Look, it really is simple. First invest in a suitable Antivirus/MailWare protection program from a referable company. 9 times out of 10 that will take care of the problem, most of the rapper will come unease will let you try their program for a fixed amount of days completely free, the key here is that they offer it as a fully functional program.

Personally, if you have everything backed up on an external, simply wipe your hard drive with a low-level format and reinstall, yeah it might take a few hours but after you waste all of your time trying to get programs like this off of your computer you’ll wonder why you just didn’t do that in the first place.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!