What is Advanced Virus Remover?

It is rogue antispyware program, which infects the computer through fake Video ActiveX Codec. The primary symptoms of the infected computer are: altered desktop background (now it is solid blue with "Your system is infected" note in the middle of a screen), "Click here to protect your computer from spyware!" warning message in taskbar area saying that:

Your computer is infected! Windows has detected an infection of spyware! It is recommended to use special antispyware tools to prevent data loss. Windows will now download and install the most up-to-date antispyware for you.

Even if you do not proceed by clicking the message, Advanced Virus Remover will be downloaded and installed anyways. It will take a minute till rogue program will start computer scan, generating exaggerated report in the end. The report is defined as exaggerated not without a reason: a list contains non-existent threats (most located in C:\Windows\system32 directory), unless Advanced Virus Remover dropped any of them by itself. The report is followed by warning popup windows (eg. Critical vulnerables found!) and Spyware Alert notices in taskbar area, which tell user that his computer system is infected, offering rogue program as a protection tool. All of these alerts are fake and should not be trusted.

At the time of installation, Advanced Virus Remover modifies Windows Registry and disables Task Manager (taskmgr.exe). Opening Task Manager will result in popup message "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator".