I am wondering if someone here is using that because I reformated my pc and the pop up keeps popping up. So I'm not sure if it's real or just an ad. Thank you!

-FaR

WinAntiVirus causes your computer to become unstable. It's like a type of spyware. It's a scam.

This can help:

http://remove-winantivirus.info/?gclid=COW...CFQpmVAodMX7i1w

Oh jeez that thing is heck annoying. I'm definitely going to try that program Elaine. Thanks a lot.

Edit: You have to buy this?

Oh, I didn't realize that!

I'll go find some more programs to help with it..

^ Yeah, the scan is free, but to remove everything you have to buy it.

Yeah I should look for something else too.

These have info and some programs that might help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinAntiVirus
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare...14&SiteID=2
http://www.aceviper.net/WinAntiVirus_Pro_2006.php

And there's a Windows Malware Remover that might help, but I'm not sure..
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

There are probably some other programs from Microsoft that could help too..
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

Thanks a lot Elaine. I'll take a look at those.

Also, while I was looking for some stuff to help take care of this, I found four useful programs in this forum.

Ad-Aware SE
Spybot-Search & Destroy
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard

I've actually heard of all of those programs, but I've only bothered installing the first one, which works pretty well.