A few weeks ago, I experienced one of the meanest, hardest, and most damaging virus/spyware/rogueware programs I have ever encountered. It literally took me about 7 hours to completely remove it from my computer. With each new variation of this rogueware, it becomes increasingly more difficult to remove and is downloaded by an internet user without the user's knowledge most of the time. Here is my documentation of my encounter.

Rapid Anti-Virus Software(RAV) is technically “rogueware,” a program which disguises itself as anti-virus software, but in reality is a virus, spyware, or trojan itself. It has been designed sleekly enough to bypass your existing antivirus/antispyware programs with ease, and in turn, disables them quite effectively. It also executes itself without the users knowledge by performing a false scan; that is, it pretends it is performing a courtesy scan and returns false readings to the user. All the while this process is going on, RAV secretly installs minor trojans and viruses in order to substantiate its claim. Once the scan is completed, consider your computer rendered fairly useless for the time being.

For me, this was the most frustrating and unbelievable experience I had ever had with a mid-level spyware threat. All of a sudden out of nowhere, I received various messages, disguised as official Windows error messages, telling me that “system resources are low – virus activity suspected,” “Email sockets are being triggered by an adware spambot,” and other such official looking messages. It even disguised itself as my own antivirus/antispyware software claiming my computer was under attack.

I was then given the option to scan again, which I declined, because I didn't recognize the software. It did not matter, the same messages happened again, only to culminate with the dreaded blue error screen, indicating a windows shutdown, saying the computer needed to be restarted. I then restarted the computer, and all the same things were happening again, leading to the blue error screen. I tried to reboot in safemode – not possible – it was disabled. Same thing with system restore. This time I let the computer run, and it rebooted itself – or so it seemed. After a few minutes, a well-crafted, phony XP reboot screen came up and told me that an unregistered copy of RAV had been installed, and only by registering it could the problem be rectified. The computer was not rebooting at all, but RAV was trying to give me this impression that it was. The computer then was back where I left off on my desktop, same messages coming up, bluescreen, fake reboot screen, and this was a continuous loop of events for hours. I then, out of curiousity, tried to register it. They wanted $59 and RAV would correct the “problems.” At times, it would even disable my internet connection through this, and occasionally pornographic icons appeared on my desktop.

At this point, I would like to say that I keep all of my antivirus/spyware programs on auto update, so everything was current as far as my virus profiles.

I tried Spybot, which detected the problem, but could not completely remove it. I was in a continuous loop with Spybot which never fixed everything. The scan took forever – 3 hours of rebooting – and I finally gave up.

Threatfire did detect it as well, claimed it had quarantined the problem which would disappear on startup. After 4 reboots, the same thing was happening. I then tried many others which could not get to the root of it, and I was at the end of my rope. I thought I was going to have to reformat my hard drive it got so bad, and I became so fustrated I just wanted to scream and throw the computer.

This is truly how bad this thing was.

While I still had a stable connection, I searched for freeware and trial removal tools to no avail. I finally came across another product called The Adware Bot, an extremely powerful antivirus/antispyware tool, which was a free download. Although I had to purchase it to remove RAV, Adware Bot not only cleaned RAV completely from my computer, it also found many other valid and potential threats which the other programs didn't even come close to detecting. I might also add that Adware Bot has to be one of the quickest programs I have ever used, cleaning my system in about half the time the other programs needed to find it. This thing was truly a lifesaver, and I recommend that everyone gets this and installs it on their system to prevent such treacherous, rogue infiltration by spyware.

To Summarize:

RAV can install itself on your computer at anytime, without any knowledge to you; and, it can run itself at anytime.

RAV creates bogus warning messages and false scans that can even fool the experienced computer user.

RAV is a very difficult rougeware program to remove which can disguise itself as your own security programs, and/or disable the most popular antivirus/antispyware programs to avoid detection.

RAV can only be “killed” by the Adware Bot, which saved my system from serious harm.

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