How to remove Total Security 2009
The Total Security 2009 fake security client is starting to makes it’s rounds. It seems many people get infected with this after trying to watch a video file online and then being prompted to install a video codec or patch. In many cases this program will disable your current security software and stop almost all programs from starting.
A good example of this is when a user tries to start up the Task Manager. You will notice that if you try and activate the Task Manager it comes up for a split second and then shuts down right away. After the process has been blocked you will see a warning coming from the system tray tellign you that that process was infected with a virus and this bogus program stopped it. As you can most likely tell this is not true and you should not purchase the bogus client.
It can be very hard to remove Total Security 2009 for this reason. It’s things such as this that make it hard to remove many of these types of programs. We went ahead and attached a You tube video to this article that will really help you understand this virus and show you a few tricks on how to get around this.
For those that are not computer savvy we do recommend you hire a pro to remove the virus for you. There are many different placed out there that can do this for you but we like this computer repair company. They are one of the best online computer repair companies out there and have been dealing with Total Security 2009 for a while now. this virus is nothing new but the strains and versions have evolved over time and this can make it very hard for normal security clients to fully find and remove this trace.
How Did I Get infected?
In most cases this client needs to be manually installed but that is not always the case. It may install automatically via a trojan downloader program. the best advice I can give you is to watch the video here and try to run a full scan in safe mode. A good site to learn more about such items is this virus removal page.