Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!

Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!

Talk about a BS error. “Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!” I’m sorry but sneaky little things like this really get to me. I swear 90% of this stuff is from the russian mob. This fake warning bob is also followed by the message. ” This web site probably contains malicious software program, which can cause damage to your computer ect..”

Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!

This is what the real warning is supposed to look like

You can see the they look very similar. However on the top one the wording is different and it has two different buttons. One asking you to get protected.

After this warnign comes up it will try to take you to another fake and bogus security client. In our case the client was called Personal Antivirus and the image looked like this

Of course this Personal antivirus is a fake and bogus client. Most people who get this warning already have this fake client installed on their computers.

Personal Antivirus removal instructions.

Manual Personal Antivirus Removal Instructions:

Stop Personal Antivirus Processes:

pav.exe PerAvir.exe services.exe unins000.exe winlogon.exe and iv.exe if running

Find and Delete these Personal Antivirus:

pav.exe Uninstall Personal Antivirus.lnk c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\activate.ico c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Explorer.ico c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\PerAvir.exe c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\unins000.dat c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\uninstall.ico c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\working.log c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\DBInfo.ver c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080614.db c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080618x.db c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAEs.lng c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAFr.lng c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAGer.lng c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAIt.lng %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\settings.ini %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\uill.ini %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\unins000.exe %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\Uninstall Personal Antivirus.lnk %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\config.cfg %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Timeout.inf %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Urls.inf %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\log.txt %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iv.exe %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe

Remove Personal Antivirus Registry Values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Personal Antivirus_is1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngine HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer “PrS” HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Personal Antivirus”

We should note that you will also need to fix your host file as well. In most cases we found issues all over with other viruses and torjans that came down with this bad boy.

Because of the nature of the Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer! threat you are better sereved using anti virus client like SpyHunter.

Outside Resources:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-visiting-this-site-may-harm-your-computer-help

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090420145826AAyRbCy