01 Jun 2009 | By Kristopher | Posted under Fake Antispyware | 34 Comments »

Advanced Virus Remover screenshot Advanced Virus Remover — AKA AdvancedVirusRemover — is scareware software that’s posing as an antivirus application. Like other scareware, Advanced Virus Remover will spoof system alerts about imaginary threats, to trick you into wasting dough on Advanced Virus Remover. One of these Advanced Virus Remover popups read:

“System warning! Continue working in unprotected mode is very dangerous. Viruses can damage your confidential data and work on your computer. Click here to protect your computer.”

System warning: you’re likely only infected with scam software.

Before Advanced Virus Remover pop-up alerts make you take baseball to your PC, let me show you how to uninstall Advanced Virus Remover.

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