What is Alpha Antivirus?

It is fake computer security product, pretending to be anti-virus program. Alpha Antivirus belongs to rogue program category and is also know as a scareware. Obvious similarities found with Personal Antivirus false product, comparing program appearance and behaviour.

The infection occurs through fake scanner webpage, which is imitating My Computer window. Shared Documents and My Documents folders, as well as Local Disks C: and D: in fake My Computer window are reported to contain trojans in them. Below lies alert "Your computer is infected" with several virus names, which state is defined as "waiting removal". Any taken action like clicking anywhere on fake website or trying to close internet explorer window will lead towards rogue program download and installation. The only advisable action that should be taken in a situation like this is ending iexplore.exe process with Task Manager.

After computer has been infected, spontaneous operating system restarts may occur. Fictitious computer scan will be initiated by Alpha Antivirus, generating exaggerated report in the end. Threat names in the report created by programs like Alpha Antivirus, are usually assumed, not present or harmless Windows system files.