XP AntiVirus 2008, is a rogue program that displays false positives on your machine
in an attempt to get you to buy their product
These programs are fraudware because they make changes to your computer and then state these changes
are infections as a scare tactic to have you purchase the software.
It goes without saying that under no circumstances should you buy it.
It is certainly doing the rounds at the moment, it is spread by mailicious websites, I have
come accross it myself a few times in the last two weeks embedded in various websites on my travels round the net.
There are also other variants of the same Trojan called XPAntivirus2009 and XPAntivirus,
If you are surfing websites and you get a splash screen for XP Antivirus2008 don't panic, and don't click on anything
just Right Click on Your TaskBar , Left Click on Task Manager and in the Applications Box that opens look for it listed
there. click on it so that it turns Blue then at the bottom of the Box Click End Task.
That will close the Webpage down.
If you want to protect yourself or your children/grandchildren while surfing a good idea is to install a Site Advisor, this will
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