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Antivirus Sentry is Malware

The title makes it clear that the Antivirus Sentry is not what it says. Antivirus Sentry is actually a rogue anti-spyware program. The computer industry will call all programs “rogues” as they are fake and these programs are catches to divide you from money & to take control of your computer in the process.

Few basic info about the Antivirus Sentry particularly is that we are having seen this software before. The Antivirus Sentry is clone of an Vista Antivirus & MS Antivirus 2008. All these programs are a part of Innovagest 2000 family and let me tell you about Innovagest 2000 family. The Innovagest 2000 is companies that makes & distributes nothing however rogue anti-spyware programs. That is right –company dedicated to defraud you out of money & using your PC for its purposes.

Programs such as Antivirus Sentry are been spread through Vundo or else Zlob Trojans. All these Trojans will get on computer any ways. You can have gone to porn site & corrupt advertisement or else video infected computer. You can have gotten corrupt or else infected file when using file-sharing software. You can have opened Spam e-mail & clicked on file attached. Or Trojan can have disguised as video or else ActiveX codec in infected free download.

When on computer, Vundo or else Zlob Trojan may flood computer with pop ups telling you your computer is been infected or else false security will alert telling you your PC is under attack. Your web-browser are hijacked & you are taken to the antivirussentry.com. At website fake scan may run & then tell you are been infected with various malware.

At this particular point, you are been pressured to buy “full version” of the Antivirus Sentry. Price is $34.95, $49.95 or else $119.95. In case you give credit card info, you get nothing-helpful back. This is just because the Antivirus Sentry has installed itself on PC without your consent by this point. In case you pay money, you may just get more spyware, malware, & adware in an exchange. The antiviral Sentry is resource hog and your computer may slow down.