Warning Spyware Detected on Your Computer - Anatomy of a Virtumonde Infection

It is the most widely circulated spyware hoax today yet most people still haven't heard of it - until they receive the dreaded "Warning Spyware Detected on Your Computer" message. If you have gotten this message, you are infected with a nasty little spyware application known as Virtumonde. And if you've clicked on the popup thinking you were going to install software that would scan and clean your computer, you are in even worse shape.

It is an exploit that is targeted to take advantage of the nearly 80% of Internet users that do not currently use antispyware software on their computer and it is making its way computers across the globe and in alarming numbers.

It is called Virtumonde (or Win32/Adware Virtumonde.)

It first rears its ugly head by showing you a popup that states "Warning Spyware Detected on Your Computer" or "Warning Spyware Threat Has Been Detected on Your PC" or some variation of those and that popup lures you to click on it in order to download and install software to fix your supposed spyware infection.

The bad news is that if you do get this popup, you already have spyware on your computer but the worse news is that if you click on the popup, it is about to get a whole lot worse.

What happens when you click on the popup is that additional spyware software is immediately downloaded and installed. And what that spyware software does is it downloads even more spyware without you knowing it and it will then inundate your computer with popups and adware. So you essentially have started this vicious loop of continuous spyware that continually infects your computer over and over again.

This is what makes Virtumonde removal virtually impossible if not done using proven and effective antispyware software.

There is simply no way that you can even attempt to remove it manually because as you are removing one group of files, another group of spyware infected files are being installed onto your computer.

So if you've seen the "Warning Spyware Detected on Your Computer Message" rear its ugly head, you need to stop everything else you are doing and get your hands on top notch antispyware software immediately because if you don't, you might as well shut your computer down and never turn it on again as you'll likely find yourself engaged in a never ending popup battle.