Removing FakeSecScan (Fake Antivirus)

The FakeSecScan virus. You may know it as another name, such as Windows Antivirus 2010 or some other generic-but-legitimate sounding name. It pretends to be an anti-virus application that scans and finds viruses on your computer. The problem is, the program itself is the virus and it is lying about the other infections that is has "found."

I've blogged about this all the way back in 2008 but since FakeSecScan continues to be one of the most prevalent virus infections out in the wild (and thus a big source of income for tech support professionals like me) I decided to revisit it.

How do you get rid of FakeSecScan? Let me save you some time and money. Download the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Boot into safe-mode, install and run it.