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How to remove antivirus360-protection.com?

March 12th, 2009

What is antivirus360-protection.com?

antivirus360-protection.com is a browser hijacker redirecting users to above mentioned web-page. The webpage is a selling-point for Antivirus 360 – a rogue anti-spyware parasite. The site is made quite professional, though dont be fulled. You will notice that all the testimonials and awards do not link to original sources and they can not be verified. They are writen and given for other software than Antivirus 360, which is just a fake. 

Once person is brainwashed enough in antivirus360-protection.com, they are asked to pay for the software. The payment domain is securedpaymentsystem.com, which is hosted on the same server and badly configured. No real payment processor would do so. This means that you can not trust them your credit card details, as they surely wont shy from using them for their purposes again. 

You should avoid securedpaymentsystem.com and antivirus360-protection.com and block them in your HOSTS file.


antivirus360-protection.com is Dangerous

arrow antivirus360-protection.com is a parasitic Browser Hijacker
arrow antivirus360-protection.com may show numerous annoying advertisements
arrow antivirus360-protection.com logs your internet browsing history
arrow antivirus360-protection.com will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
arrow antivirus360-protection.com may spread additional spyware
arrow antivirus360-protection.com violates your privacy and compromises your security
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Manual antivirus360-protection.com removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove antivirus360-protection.com, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
Stop these antivirus360-protection.com processes:
Remove these antivirus360-protection.com Registry Entries:
Remove these antivirus360-protection.com files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other antivirus360-protection.com infected files and get help in antivirus360-protection.com removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing antivirus360-protection.com and similar threats.

antivirus360-protection.com is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as antivirus360-protection.com to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like antivirus360-protection.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as antivirus360-protection.com completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as antivirus360-protection.com?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.
Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

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