It is an adware program which deceives users and warns them of unexisting threats in their computers. In order to eliminate them, they are enticed to purchase a certain program. It can reach the computer through banners or pop-up windows which are displayed in certain websites.

Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95

AVProtection2009 is an adware program that deceives users warning them of unexisting threats in their computers so that they purchase a certain program that removes them from the computer.

AVProtection2009 can reach the computer when the user accesses certain websites which display banners or pop-up windows which lead to the download of this program.

AVProtection2009 is easy to recognize, as it shows the following symptoms:

• When it is run, it displays a window like the following which simulates that an antivirus program is being installed:
  
  
• Once installed, the program starts scanning the system in search for possible malware: