Rogue Antispyware AV Guard Online’s removal proving stubborn

Posted by Denny under Rogue Anti-Spyware

Despite increasing awareness among PC owners about the dangers of rogue security tools, applications like AV Guard Online is still reaching record high infection rates. This rogue, which belongs to the same family of rogues as OpenCloud Security uses devious tactics such as browser hijackers to gain surreptitious access to its victims’ PCs. It makes use of genuine looking GUIs in an effort to gain the trust of its victims, but when all is said and done AV Guard Online certainly does not have the ability to protect any PC from online threats or infections. This is why keeping this rogue on the PC is not a good idea, and users should remove AV Guard Online if they value their PC’s security.

AV Guard Online will hide its presence from the user until it feels strong enough to start its attack. The attack will start by AV Guard Online editing registry entries so as to allow itself to launch each time the user logs on to Windows. It then launches a fake security scan which will inform the user that his system is being attacked, and that he needs to purchase AV Guard Online in order to protect his PC.

The user will soon after this receive many fake and annoying pop ups informing him of the very same thing. Some of the fake alerts to be on the lookout for include the following:

Warning: Spyware Detected
Windows has found spy programs running on your computer!
Click here to update your Windows antivirus software

Windows Security Center
Serious security vulnerabilities were detected on this computer. Your privacy and personal data may be unsafe. Do you want to protect your PC?

Some of the symptoms reportedly associated with AV Guard Online include extremely poor system performance, increased erratic system behavior, blocked Internet connections and the inability of the user to launch applications on the infected PC. This is done in an effort to further panic the user into paying for AV Guard Online, but also to prevent him from either downloading or executing an application which may be able to remove AV Guard Online from the system.

There is only one way to regain control of your PC if infected with this rogue, and that is to annihilate AV Guard Online for good. This can safest be achieved by using a legitimate security tool to destroy AV Guard Online and restore your PC’s security and privacy.