XP Police Antivirus Removal Guide

XP Police Antivirus is the name of the rogue AV infecting thousands of computers worldwide. It is not hard to get infected with this threat if you do not run a legitimate anti-spyware software on your PC. Our tests show that the attackers use social-engineering approach to convince users to download a so called "missing codec" in order to watch a certain trendy video. Instead of watching the promised clip, the unsuspecting user unwillingly installs XP Police Antivirus rogue.

XP Police Antivirus uses a well-known method of extortion: it displays annoying pop-ups almost every 5 seconds and it auto-starts fake "security scans". Those scans state that the computer is heavily infected with various malware – Trojans, viruses and worms. Of course, all the results of the XP Police Antivirus scans are made-up, and no one should pay attention to those bogus alerts.

Occasionally XP Police Antivirus will display pop-up messages that the PC is under hacker’s attack from a certain IP address. All these actions of XP Police Antivirus aim at only one thing: to force the infected user to pay for XP Police Antivirus "full version". As you already know there is no full version, what is more, XP Police Antivirus is not a real security product. Users should not worry for XP Police Antivirus fake scan results, or for the phony pop-up messages. Instead, they should take immediate action to remove XP Police Antivirus from their machines.

In order not to fall victims to the cyber-crooks again, Internet surfers should follow some simple guidelines: download and install a reliable, legitimate anti-spyware software, run frequent scans for threats, enable the Windows firewall or some 3rd party firewall solution, and always keep all programs up-to-date. The Windows OS itself should be updated with the latest updates too.