Updating Information on Antivirus Soft

After warning you against malicious Antivirus Soft activities and providing information about its website, the time has now come to talk about more detailed technical issues. Therefore, today I'll provide answers to the questions what has to be known about its files; and how this malicious application can disturb your PC's smooth functioning. 

Let me remind you that Antivirus Soft uses various scare tactics in order to make victims purchase a full version of the program. Antivirus Soft has the ability to disrupt normal functions on Windows platform, including appropriate functioning of folder options, task manager and control panel. The other symptoms that indicate the presence of Antivirus Soft on your system are as follows:

• Computer performance is dramatically slowed down
  
• Annoying commercial adverts are constantly being displayed
  
• Fake program is installed without any permission
  
• The program can start connecting to the internet without permission
  
• Background can be changed
  
• Annoying pop-up's are constantly being displayed
  
• Internet connection can become very slow

Now I would like to move on to more precise information concerning Antivirus Soft. As is the case with any other rogues, Antivirus Soft is associated with several distinct files that help to distinguish it from other rogue applications and that need to be deleted in order to remove Antivirus Soft from an infected system.

For a rather long time, the main Antivirus Soft installation file was called sysguard.exe. However, most probably due to the fact that more users had become aware of this file as malicious, cyber criminals have started creating random file names. Have a look at the following table with some of these randomly created file names, their distinct sizes and MD5 signatures:

Table 1. Antivirus Soft files

Remember that these are just a FEW examples of Antivirus Soft installation files. Therefore, it's of high importance to be cautious when browsing the web and downloading any files. Don't click on unknown links and attachments. Besides, don't forget to use a reliable and up-to-date anti-virus application. All these actions may reduce the possibility of catching Antivirus Soft and other rogue security applications.