Quick Reminder

The internet is a potentially dangerous place. Thanks to Schrock Innovations, it’s a little less so.

Here is SI’s guide to help you remove virusburst.

More SmitFraud Spyware

Spylocked is the usual SmitFraud spyware, identified by pop-ups that try and convince you to buy an anti-spyware product. This is a dummy piece of software.

Use the Schrock Innovations guide to help you remove spylocked.

ContraVirus: more SmitFraud

Another variation of Brave Sentry, ContraVirus attempts to force you to purchase software.

Use this guide to remove contravirus instead.

More SmitFraud Spyware

SpyCrush, another variant of Brave Sentry, will give you messages like:

“System has detected a number of active spyware applications that may impact the performance of your computer. Click the icon to get rid of unwanted spyware by downloading an up-to-date anti-spyware solution.”

This is an effort to get you to purchase dummy software. It’s strongly recommended that you follow these instructions to remove spycrush.

ExpertAntivirus (Expert Antivirus) Spyware Follows BraveSentry Mold

Just like BraveSentry tried to fool users into buying licensed versions of a spyware program that was spread by trojans, the latest variant of BraveSentry tries to do the same thing. 

 ExpertAntivirus is JUST NOW immerging on the web as the latest smitfraud threat.  You really should not send any money to these people – just manually remove ExpertAntivirus.

Thor Schrock Technology Blog Covers Brave Sentry Surge

The Thor Schrock Technology Blog has covered the surge in BraveSentry submissions ofer the past few weeks.  I strongly encourage you to check out Schrock Innovations’ remove Brave Sentry tutorial if you become infected with this.

Spyware Removal Help Websites

• Complete List of Computer Help Tutorials (Pages 2, 3, 4, & 5)
• How to Install RAM Memory
• How to Remove all Symantec Norton Products From Your Computer
• How to Remove the Spy Falcon Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to Use Visual Compatibility Modes in Windows XP
• How to Make a Set of Windows XP Boot Disks
• How to Burn a CD using Windows XP’s Integrated Software
• How to Copy Music From Your iPod to iTunes on a New PC
• How to Remove MoviePass Spyware Infection (Printable Version) (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• Prevent the System32/Config/SYSTEM Error
• How to Remove the SpywareQuake Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to remove the SpySheriff Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to Backup or Transfer Your Outlook Express Mail, Accounts, and Address Book
• How to Remove the Brave Sentry and Brave Sentry 2.0 Spyware Infections (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to Remove the Brave Sentry and Brave Sentry 2.0 Spyware Infections (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to Remove the Popcorn.net and Download Manager Spyware Infections (Pages 2, 3, & 4)
• How to Remove the NSIS FireFox Spyware Infection (Page2)
• How to resolve the Error 10 Norton installation error (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the AlfaCleaner Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the SpyHeal Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the SpyTrooper Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the SpywareStrike Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the TrustCleaner Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the VirusBurst Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)
• How to Remove the SpyLocked Spyware Infection (Page 2, 3, 4)

How to Remove Brave Sentry (BraveSentry) Spyware Infections Completely

This month I have seen a sudden increase in the number of people accessing our remove Brave Sentry tutorial on the Schrock website.

More than 1,500 unique visitors this month have accessed the tutorial, which is a lot considering that the spyware infection has been out there for at least a year now.

Newer variants of the infection, such as spylocked, have been released since BraveSentry, yet it dominates this month.

Be on the lookout, and if you see any small balloons saying you are infected with spyware, do not pay anything to anyone before you make certain that the balloon is not generated by a spyware program like Spy Locker, or SpySheriff.