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Rogue: Your Protection

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Posted 29 April 2010 - 12:06 AM

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Your Protection is a rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Paladin Antivirus. This rogue is promoted and installed through the use of malware that automatically downloads and installs it onto your computer without your consent or knowledge. Once downloaded and installed, Your Protection will scan your computer for certain legitimate anti-virus programs that may be installed on your computer. If they are detected, Use Protection will state they are infections and prompt you to uninstall them. It does this in order to protect itself from the legitimate programs that may flag Your Protection as an infection. The anti-malware programs that it tries to uninstall include:


More here including a removal guide compliments of Grinler and Bleeping Computer.
http://www.bleepingc...your-protection
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