General Antivirus is a clone of the infamous InternetAntivirus Pro fraud (learn more about Internet Antivirus Pro malware). General Antivirus offers deleting computer threats after user pays for keeping the tool. The program isn’t capable of scanning a computer; it only fabricates scan reports to trick people into paying money.
These are the most common falsified alerts loaded by General Antivirus scam:
“General Antivirus has probably found malicious software that might harm your computer and compromised your privacy.
General Antivirus is latest rename of Spyware Guard 2009, Internet Antivirus Plus and Antivirus 36o. As we can see the names become more generic each day to give virus manufacturers more freedom of confusing victims. Of couse, you can promote such fake remover like General Antivirus without help of trojans planted in user system.
There are several signs that you are infected with General Antivirus, including fake windows security center (havent we seen that many times before? ), fake windows alerts stating that your computer is under attack or that you are infected by a parasite and random messages in Internet Explorer. They have lots of imagination at naming alerts too: some of General antivirus alerts are from “firewall”, some “Infiltration Alerts” are labeled as generated by windows system itself, or Internet Explorer. Of couse, all these are fakes, though inexperienced user might not see the difference.
General Antivirus (GeneralAntivirus) represents the achievements of rascals united in the group named Innovagest. The group also develops and promotes other fake security tools. The most notorious names among them are Internet Antivirus Pro and Alfa Cleaner. General Antivirus is adverted through the promo-version and fake online scanners. The online scanner is a primitive show with few interactive elements and popping-up alerts which aim is to mislead user into buying General Antivirus or installing the full version. The trialware may be downloaded and installed manually or automatically in the secret mode by trojan that had to be previously downloaded. The consequences of General Antivirus activities, both of its trial and full version, are unlikely to please you. General Antivirus slow computer down as it runs its scans and generate alerts by its own initiative, and that create shortage of available system resources and interferes with other active programs.
The malware creators did not want to leave us alone. They launched a new attack on the Internet, with this new malware called General Antivirus. General Antivirus is also known as GeneralAntivirus. General Antivirus normally comes up after you visited some malicious websites, or installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. General Antivirus usually generates fake and misleading system error messages. The purpose of General Antivirus is to trick innocent web surfers into purchasing General Antivirus. Please be alerted with General Antivirus.
