All about SmitFraud Antivirus ?

Smitfraud is essentially a virus that fakes as real and tries to trap you for purchasing an anti virus software. Those with UNIX based machines are the lucky ones, as this virus attacks the windows based machines only, also referred as W32. This virus generally pops up on when you try to download a video or an audio file, and creeps in to your system with codes like Pcodes, BrainCodes, and VideoKeyCodes. These codes pretend your system is under risk with virus and shows an automatic scanning of files and drives also leading to another fake threat on desktop background like a blue screen of threat (which happens when your system actually crashes). It prompts you to purchase their anti virus software like SpyAxe, SpySheriff or Spydawn. So their ultimate intention is to panic the user and capitalize this fear.

Now that we understand this virus is faked, it is also important to understand the actual threats by this virus if any, and the necessary remedial measures. This spy ware or ad ware process aim at faking risk to a window based system. It automatically runs a system scan, multiplies rapidly and keeps throwing pop up messages. If you send that particular audio or video file to someone else, it keeps growing to all system, forcing you to buy their software. If you get trapped into one of this, and use your credit card credentials to purchase one of them, there are chances of information theft as well. It is always recommended to do a general research on software you plan to download. In the worst case even if your system has got infected with this virus, you have remedies. You can download tools like SmitRem to remove SmitFraud or applications like SmitFraudFix or RogueRemover to remove the registry entries and uninstall this program respectively. Once you have downloaded this software, you can reboot your system in safe mode and run the file RunThis.bat. Following this, run SmitFraudFix and get back your system normal and healthy.

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