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How to remove “Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” system alert
Malware Description:
If you are getting redirected to a page reading “Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!”, be sure you are being brainwashed by a dangerous backdoor Trojan virus which is integrally related to the renegade activity of rogue anti-spyware applications. It’s the Trojan that makes this page appear now and again to thus try misleading you into installing the paid commercial version of its affiliated fake anti-spyware programs known as Antivirus System Pro or Antivirus Monitor. The trick is that the above-mentioned rogues (Antivirus System Pro and Antivirus Monitor) refer to the same family and therefore apply very similar tactics to brainwash people. If you take a closer look, you will see that the “Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” web page has a misleadingly trustworthy URL like Browser-security.microsoft.com or similar trustworthy-looking one. In fact, this is just another trick achievable by interfering with your hosts file to assign a legitimate-looking domain to a corrupt IP-address. On the misleading web page under consideration, you will view a number of probable reasons for your being allegedly not able to surf the web normally. These listed causes assume you may be infected with spyware, or the intended website has exploits and malicious scripts. The recommended actions will be to install Antivirus System Pro or Antivirus Monitor by following one of the few available links. Clicking on these links will get you to a website that directly promotes Antivirus System Pro or Antivirus Monitor fraud. One of such supplementary websites is Softwaream.com. Do NOT install Antivirus System Pro or Antivirus Monitor on any of the sites you visit forcedly. Instead, remove the Trojan and (possibly) Antivirus System Pro or Antivirus Monitor corrupt trialware ASAP to prevent the malware from spreading in your system.
Malware Type: Security Alert
Malware Author: Antivirus Monitor, Inc.
Threat Level: 
High
Advice: Immediately remove
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Screenshot of “Internet Explorer Warning …” Pushing Antivirus System Pro:
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How to remove “Internet Explorer Warning …” System Alert manually:
Manual removal of “Internet Explorer Warning …” is feasible if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, system processes, .dll files and registry entries.
The associated files to be deleted are listed below:
- %Temp%\[random]\
- %Temp%\[random]\[random].exe
The related registry entries to be removed are as follows:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = “0″
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:18810″
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = “1″
Please, be aware that manual removal of “Internet Explorer Warning… ” System Alert is a cumbersome procedure and does not ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may automatically reanimate themselves afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal of “Internet Explorer Warning… ” System Alert, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
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i did the system alert automatic remover, but still get the spyware protect 2009 thing popping up. how do i get this removed from my computer? i have Norton antivirus installed. thank you.
Pat,
Thanks for your comment!
Have you installed our automatic removal tool or just run the system scan?
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big problem, when i click Dowload “Internet Explorer Warning…” System Alert Automatic Remover it goes to the Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer! screen and i do not have the computer skills needed to do this manually Thank you for your help!
I am getting the spyware protect 2009 thing popping up. how do i get this removed from my laptop? i have Norton antivirus installed
Vikas,
In order to get rid of Spyware Protect 2009 rogue anti-spyware program, you should follow our manual or automatic removal recommendations available at http://remove-malware.net/how-to-remove-spyware-protect-2009/
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Parker,
Looks like the malware is preventing you from installing removal tools directly on the infected machine.
In your individual case, we recommend you to try downloading our remover on a different computer that is not infected. Then, you should save it to a CD or flash memory and this way move it to the contaminated PC.
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this page controls my pc Please terminate Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!
it has controlled our pc for two days because this dang ad
Faulk,
If you have been getting diverted to a page like this, it’s Spyware Protect 2009 scamware that you need to remove. The fake warning page is a symptom of Spyware Protect 2009 rogue anti-spyware and a part of its malicious tactics. In order to get rid of Spyware Protect 2009, please follow the our manual or automatic removal instructions above.
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I keep getting that same message: Internet Explorer warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer! I have AVG and ran it over and over again and it gets trojan virus’s but it’s still there and it won’t allow me to use the internet.
Just a suggestion…I was having problems getting to any websites with IE, but I am able to still get online with Firefox, so I’m trying to download the removal tool with Firefox instead. So far, so good!
For temporary use, what I do is when the Internet Explorer warning pops up, click more options. Then click back to the site you want to view. It sometimes works for me.
uggghhh, are you guys getting popups too? Like no on the internet, but like the taskbar keeps showing me messages and is like WINDOWS SECURITY ALERT. BLAH BLAH BLAH. i know it has to be from that cause i dont have any virus anything on my comoputer.
Just for your guys information….this malware will not let you kill proccesses in the task mngr or let your visit any webpage to download the required removal software. So what i did here at work is, downloaded the required software on another pc on the network, then moved the install file to the infected pc’s shared folder in “my network places.” i was then able to install the program, but the malware still prohibited me from running it after it was installed. So, the solution i found was, once your software is installed, whatever it may be, restart your pc, and as soon as your desktop is active, open the program from your desktop shortcut and immediately do a full scan of your whole computer. This worked for me, why, i dont know, maybe this malware takes a few moments to get going, but it can be beat to the punch. hope this helps!
another trick would be to actually trick the malware! i found out that if you cannot run tor even install your removal software, simply rename it before you install and it should work just fine!
Brad is right, I have this thing on my computer menacing through everything, I ignored it for 4 days because FireFox still worked (but soon even firefox stops working). Anyway, the virus DOES take a while to start up again when you’ve logged on. So you have to quickly start up the programs the second you can click icons. Though after a while even this doesn’t work as the Malware messes up your programs! I tried using Registry Mechanic, Spybot, and AVG! The first time it got rid of a lot of junk, the Malware slowed down a bit and not much changed. I figured the thing would “die out” so I went on with my online school. Turns out I was wrong, FireFox began getting the message and now nothing works.
To stop it from running, I ran msconfig, then I disabled addeefvaffm from the Startup. After I disabled it, I logged off and then logged back in again.
This stopped the malware from starting when I re-logged back in. However,
the problem with IE remained because the host file was already messed up
by the virus.
If the malware won’t let you access the internet to download the system alert automatic remover but you have more than one profile, try again using a different profile. I’ve done this and managed to download the system alert automatic remover and am running it from another profile. Fingers crossed!
Just so everybody who is getting the warning when they start the download for this program, if you look at the title bar above where the fake warning is (next to the minimize and close window squares etc), you will see that the download is still proceeding even though the fake warning is covering the normal status bar… it still says what percentage of the download has finished etc.
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