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Welcome to Malwarebytes Affiliate. We are a UK based affiliate of what has to be the best removal tool to hit the market over the past 10 years.
Having worked in the IT industry for 20 years, we are constantly hit on a weekly basis with clients PC's and Laptops that appear to have some kind of Malware / Virus issues.
Thankfully Malwarebytes is your answer to a clean removal of these unwanted rogue applications.
90% of our problems is to do with some kind of Malware / Virus / Trojan whatever you may call it, it shouldn't be on there and could be compromising your system as we speak !
Why do individuals develop these rogue Malware / Virus / Trojan applications like Antivirus 2010 you may ask ?
Lets take a look at why these people do this:
Write a Malware application cost $100,000Create a childs website with Free games, downloads, video's etc $50,000 (children are easy targets!)Outlay for the con artists is $150,000OK, what's in it for them you may ask ?
Lets take the Google searches for the term Antivirus 2008 removal tool, Antivirus 2009 removal tool, Antivirus 2010 removal tool, total searches is 10,000,000. Please bare in mind this is only one of the 100s of rogue applications out there. Lets say that 10% of the searches actually has the Malware / Virus on their machines and half of those people fell for the scam and paid for the Antivirus 20XX to remove the Malware from their machines by paying the $29.
So $29 x 500,000 = $14,500,000. And this is for only one of the 100's of rogue applications !! Not a bad return on their $150,000 investment !
How does the Malware / Viruses get onto our PC's / Workstations in the first place ?
This can be done in many ways, most are from website's especially childrens websites as they are an easy target, they don't know what Malware / Viruses are, other than a cold they get now and again! By clicking onto a streaming video link, downloading a free game, downloading a free screensaver, there are hundreds of ways that can trigger the install of the rogue application.
When you click on an install button or play link to a video, you are giving the permission to install the application on your machine, whilst you think your getting a free game or a funny video, your getting your machine compromised with all sorts of Malware and viruses.
Now the Malware and Viruses are installed during the installation of the application like and yes they are real viruses. The application says that it can remove these viruses for you if you pay a fee (normally $29) STOP THERE, DO NOT DO A SCAN OR DETECTION using this rogue application that has appeared on your machine.
At this stage you must download Malwarebytes using the links at the top of this page and perform a 'Quick Scan'. The longer you leave it the worse your machine will get. As time goes on it will get more infections due to your PC has been compromised until your machine is completely unusable, then you will have to get someone to either remove it bit by bit or re-image your PC or laptop from scratch. This as you know can be an huge avoidable expense !!
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(Posted on 2010-01-08 18:20:00 by )
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Now you explain it, it makes sense why they do this. They can make millions £££ 's and get away with it.
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Thanks for the advice. ran the Malwarebytes checker and found 24 infections. Strangly an AVG scan didn't find any of these at all.
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thankyou. took a while to do a full scan but it did find alot of malicious malware. regards C
(Posted on 2009-11-24 19:07:00 by ) -
ran malwarebytes once and it cleaned my machine. i had to do a reboot of my computer and voila, no problem all sorted cheers.
(Posted on 2009-11-23 17:30:00 by ) -
Thanks, worked a treat !
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all i can say is what a great tool. malwarebytes does exactly what is says on the tin
(Posted on 2009-10-20 12:31:00 by ) -
I spent ages trying to get rid of malware on my computer. I tried to send a guy a copy of my hijack this to take a look, he said that it was FULL of infections ! My thought's was 'Great' now what ? Then I found malwarebytes.co.uk and downloaded the free scanner. All I can say is 'WOW' it cleaned all the infected files, done a reboot and now my computer is back to normal again. Well done malwarebytes !
(Posted on 2009-10-19 08:30:00 by ) -
i stumbled on your site, what a god send ! i have been struggling for days trying to get my computer back to normal. downloaded malwarebytes and problem solved, thnx
(Posted on 2009-10-05 07:41:00 by ) -
Great product, so easy to install and run. Thanks for the write up, explains alot about why they do this. found loads on my machine. Sally
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Now you mention it, it kind of adds up why they do this type of thing. I had weird things popping up on my screen, i downloaded Malwarebytes and updated it, run a scan and it picked up a whole host of nasties. at the end of the scan it reported 164 !! it had to restart my machine in order to get rid of some of them. after it rebooted, my computer was back to normal. Cheers
(Posted on 2009-09-28 07:25:00 by ) -
Hi, thanks for the explanation, now you mention it, it makes sense why they do program these rogue applications. They could potentially make 100's of millions of pounds or dollars doing this, and get away with it. I downloaded Malwarebytes and found 57 threats and removed them. I had to do a reboot after, and my problem was solved ! thanks again John
(Posted on 2009-09-26 08:35:00 by )
Malwarebytes is confirmed to support the following OS. Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Cheers for the explanation worked great. removed 178 viruses running a quick scan. make sure it updates first though, goto the update tab click update, it goes off and finds the latest update.