How to prevent Fake Antivirus and Fake Antispyware?

Fake or rogue antivirus has cheated many people nowadays. Normally most people are “suddenly” infected by the rogue antivirus or antispyware installed without even knowing it . It install automatically after clicking on a button in a website which show you a very convincing message telling you that you have a virus or spyware.

Fake Antivirus is a type of virus/malwares which disguises itself to be an antivirus. It infects your computer when you accidentally click a link in a website which will download the malware into your computer and run automatically when your windows boot. It scan the infected computer and produces fake alert warnings. It convinces you that your computer is in danger and urge you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus. These fake antiviruses must be removed immediately.

As it is come from clicking a button in a website through a browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox, I strongly recommend all of you to install Sandboxie and use Firefox as your main browser.

Install NoScript to prevent malicious script to install virus in your computer.

Then, run your browser, Firefox, in the Sandbox after installing Sandboxie so that no virus will be installed in your computer. Why? Read this article.

I have used Sandboxie for couple years. Untill now, my computer is free from any virus and I just use the Free AVG as my main antivirus only. Try Sandboxie and Firefox (with NoScript installed)now! Your computer will be free from most type of viruses!

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How to selectively disable specific Autorun features

To selectively disable specific Autorun features, you can either use Autorun Settings or you must change the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry in one of the following registry key subkeys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\

The following values shows the settings for the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry.

Value	Meaning
0x1 or 0x80	Disables AutoRun on drives of unknown type
0x4	Disables AutoRun on removable drives
0x8	Disables AutoRun on fixed drives
0x10	Disables AutoRun on network drives
0x20	Disables AutoRun on CD-ROM drives
0x40	Disables AutoRun on RAM disks
0xFF	Disables AutoRun on all kinds of drives

The value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry determines which drive or drives the Autorun functionality will be disabled for. For example, if you want to disable Autorun for network drives only, you must set the value of NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry to 0x10.

If you want to disable Autorun for multiple drives, you must add the corresponding hexadecimal values to the 0x10 value. For example, if you want to disable Autorun for removable drives and for network drives, you must add 0x4 and 0x10, which is the mathematical addition of 2 hexadecimal values, to determine the value to use. 0x4 + 0x10 = 0x14. Therefore, in this example, you would set the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry to 0x14.

The default value for the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry varies for different Windows-based operating systems:

Operating system	Default value
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista	0x91
Windows Server 2003	0x95
Windows XP	0x91
Windows 2000	0x95

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