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Real Antivirus is a Scam!

Never get fooled by the Real Antivirus fraud. How it begins is you will get flooded with the intrusive, deceptive pop ups telling you your computer are been infected & only hope is clicking pop-up. You are now scared that your PC might be harmed, so you will click pop ups & go to Real Antivirus (as well named RealAV) web site where fake scan runs & tells you are been infected. Yes, I said it is fake scan and files it lists since infecting your PC are not on computer. In case you do search you may find that they do not exist, but most of the people are alarmed at that point they only want to get infection off from their PC without checking out if its real.

After scan, you are forced to pay $89.95 on credit card for full version of the Real Antivirus. Lots of cave at this point that fall for scare tactics give their credit information to get an infection off their PC. Problem is that you are not providing your credit info to legitimate company and you are providing your credit information to the scammers. In addition, there is not any telling how they may use your credit information. Al these warnings will come in a form of pop-ups that come from credible & legitimate organization. However, despite appearances, claims made by the Advanced Antivirus are all fraudulent. The Advanced Antivirus also tells you that system is in the danger in effort to incite the fear.

Now as you have given money to the Real Antivirus, you will get “program.” Program is really bundled of the spyware, malware, & adware. You get pop ups, your PC is being checked for the personal confidential info that may get sent to original programmers of the Real Antivirus, and your PC can be used in denial of service attacks or else for spamming others. Your PC can completely slow down due to all background processes that are running on the computer, a thanks to the Real Antivirus. Real Antivirus is clone of Antivirus 2008.