This computer infection is named and should not be confused with the legitimate anti-virus program called AVG Anti-virus. This rogue is promoted through web sites that pretend to be online anti-malware scanners, but are instead advertisements that when finished state your computer is infected. This fake scanner will then prompt you to download and install AVG Anti-Virus on to your computer in order to protect it. It should be noted that these fake online scanners are just an advertisement that have absolutely no way of knowing what is running on your computer.
In fact they will show the same infection results to anyone who visits the page. Therefore, do not be concerned by what these online scanners show you.
Once started it will perform a scan on your computer and when finished state that it is infected with a variety of malware. If you attempt to use the program to remove any of the malware it finds, though, it will state that you first need to purchase the program before it will remove anything. This is a complete scam as the scan results are all fake and many of the listed files are actually legitimate files that if removed could cause problems for your computer.
Therefore, do not manually remove any of the items it displays in its scan results. While AVG Anti-Virus is running it will also display alerts and warnings that attempt to scare you into thinking your computer has a serious computer security problem.
These alerts will state that personal information is being stolen, active malware has been found, or that you are using unlicensed software. The text of some of these alerts are:. Once installed on your machine, NetPumper may start monitoring your web browsing habits, such as what pages you usually load and what search terms you usually type in the search page.
NetPumper may also deliver excessive pop-up advertisements even when you are not browsing the Internet. NetPumper also an ability to slow down your computer performance by using your hard drive recourses in order to deliver advertisements on your computer screen. Identity theft attempt detected! Keys Description: Remote host tries to get access to your personal information. AVG was driving me up the wall-slow speed on all systems and I was so grateful to use the uninstall tool which has cleared everything of AVG and am now protected by Norton.
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