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 spam messages, banners or pop-up windows which are displayed in certain websites.

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

TotalSecurity2009 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.

TotalSecurity2009 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. It can also reach the computer in a link distributed in spam messages.

TotalSecurity2009 is easy to recognize, as it shows the following symptoms:

• When it is run, the following message is displayed:
  
• Then, several fake security warnings like the following are displayed in the system bar:
  
• Finally, it starts scanning the system looking for possible malware: