Remove System Guard

You would think that an ant-spyware named System Guard would have your best interests in mind. This is quite the opposite as this nasty piece of scareware will have you running for your wallet to ward off the viruses it supposedly has detected. You see, this software is actually malware and inserted itself into your PC while you were lowering your guard and opening that innocuous email or going to sites you shouldn’t have.

After making itself comfortable in your system, it then scares the pants off of you by saying that your computer is plagued by all sorts of infections. Don’t worry, all of these are fake and are all part of the elaborate deception to separate you from your money. It will try to offer you an upgrade, for a price of course, to remove all of these viruses from your computer. Don’t pay for it. Simply get rid of the program immediately to cure your woes.

Because this software was able to infiltrate your system’s defenses, what is stopping others from getting in as well? So you need to patch up your security holes by following the removal instructions below and getting yourself a legitimate and trusted (as well as real) anti-malware application to prevent this thing from happening again.

Remove Defense Center

Like many other rogue anti-spyware, Defense Center is just pure hokum. In our world today, people are more easily scared than ever with wars, natural disasters and man-made accidents that threaten to disrupt our lives. Defense Center’s creators know this and are willing to scrape a few bucks out of you by selling you security protection the best way they know how - by showing that your system is already infected and that they have (amazingly) just the fix you need. Even the name of the program looks like it came straight out of Homeland Security.

It does this by breaching your privacy and installing itself into your computer. It then apparently scans your computer and bombards you with messages tapping into your fear center and hoping you fall for its fake virus scans, security alerts and other pop-ups. It will then say that you can get rid of all of these by just buying the upgrade to this software you didn’t even know existed in your computer until now.

Legitimate security applications do not do this and they do not scam you by holding your PC hostage. Like other software, you need to buy true anti-spyware programs and install them before you use them. You need to remove this fake software immediately since not only will it annoy you until you pay, it will also turn off many of the security features of your computer, making you vulnerable to attack. Follow our easy guide below to rid yourself of Defense Center quickly and painlessly.

Remove Sysinternals Antivirus

Sysinternals Antivirus might sound like a very legitimate application. That’s quite true as Microsoft owns the Sysinternals brand and it is actually a site that provides tools for administering and monitoring Windows computers. Among other things, they also have a few anti-malware tools available though none of them are named Sysinternals Antivirus.

So while you think you can trust this rogue anti-spyware app, don’t! Like many others, it will merely offer up scans of fake viruses that won’t harm your computer at the least. It does this so it can extort you for money by saying that it can remove these malware in exchange for an ‘upgrade’ to the software. Don’t send your money to them!

It’s better to just remove this bad piece of software and get a true antivirus application instead. One of the reasons why you need to remove this is that it introduces security holes in your computer, making you vulnerable to actual malware. They can then steal your information, credit card details and any other data in your system that can be useful to them.

You can remove this program easily and painlessly though. Just follow our instructions below to be in the clear of this nasty infection.

Remove AV Security Suite

AV Security Suite is yet another rogue anti-spyware program you need to watch out for. It does the usual scareware stuff of serving up virus scan results by putting fake files into your computer that it cries wolf about and points as malware. It’s all a deception though since these files are harmless and they are merely wanting you to swipe your credit card (or the online equivalent of that) and send some cash their way. They won’t actually fix anything and just preying on your fears.

Probably the more dangerous thing about this software is that it will block access to legitimate software, crippling your PC. It will also hijack your Internet Explorer and change the settings so that it routes information through a proxy server that might serve up more malware to your computer.

You will need to reverse the changes done in Internet Explorer by this nasty malware as well as boot in Safe Mode in order to wipe your system clean of all traces of AV Security Suite. Failure to do so might lead to loss of data, system instability even complete failure of your PC. Follow our easy guide on how to remove this fake anti-spyware from your computer and leave the actual scanning and virus cleaning to legitimate anti-virus apps.

Remove Protection Center

As if the current number of rogue anti-spyware out there isn’t bad enough, here comes another threat that goes by the name Protection Center. Like all scareware of its ilk, it will frighten you with all sorts of virus pop-ups, network attack alerts and virus scans that show all sorts of nasty stuff on your PC. The only way to stop it, supposedly, is to pay up for the upgraded version. A piece of advice: don’t pay for it!

All the scans, alerts and others are just a scam to separate you from your money. It’s all smoke and mirrors with fake programs planted in your systems to mimic virus files. Beyond not giving these people your cash, you should go ahead and remove this badware from your system immediately. If it could get in your computer, what’s stopping other malware from doing the same?

Bear in mind though that this one is pretty tricky to remove as it disables many of the security features in your computer. You need to boot into Safe Mode with Networking to be able to get rid of this infection once and for all. Read on for more instructions on how to rid yourself of Protection Center.