I payed for a year of the stupid fake IE antivirus and they charged me twice. I called my bank and told them it was a fraud company, but it cannot be dealt with until friday because the charges havent gone through. Is there a chance I will get my almost $100 back? It does count as fraud right?
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1 cotojo // Jul 16, 2008
Sadly far too many people are falling for the fake software scam, which is netting the perpetrators a lot of money and causing misery for those who are conned.
There is a slim chance that you will get your money back, if you paid by Credit Card your chances are very high as most have an anti-fraud scheme in place, which will be repaid to you if you are a victim of such fraud.
Be very careful in downloading any softwre that promises to 'make your machine as good as new' etc, stick to those that have good write ups, are well known and popular, many of which are free and work better than many of the paid for versions.
2 Mudit Goyal // Jul 16, 2008
IE Antivirus is a scam antivirus and after your $50. Well its quite sad that you were charged $100 for that. Hope that you get your well earned money back.
Well being a virus, it hogs up your system space.
So if you havn't removed it yet here is the procedure.
Removal Steps
1. Open windows task manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del). Go to Processes Tab. Find the image name antivir.exe and highlight it. Next kill the process by clicking end process. Click yes on task manager warning.
2. Next go to control panel and Open Add remove programs. Find IE Antivirus and remove it. It will say the program looks to be already uninstalled but its not so.
3. Now go to C:\Program Files(assuming that you have windows in C drive) and delete the folder named IEAntiVirus.
You have deleted the spyware except that its to be removed from registry.
(Registry editing is dangerous and improper editing could lead to system crash) Please follow the following instructions very carefully otherwise can lead to system instability.
4. Go start menu-> Run-> type 'regedit' without commas-> press enter
5.Now in the left menu go to the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
On the right side spot antispy and delete it
6. Now go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IEAntiVirus
And delete the key 'IEAntivirus' by right clicking on it and selecting delete.
You have cleaned the Spyware from your system.
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