cheekyzinho

Help,


Stupidly, I clicked onto a fraudulent link thinking it was my internet banking account. My bank froze my internet account until I ran the paretologic scan amongst other ones.

I ran the scan Pareto logic anti-virus plus scan. It came up that there was a threat from a piece of software from viewpoint (with a threat level of let's say 5/10, which was in the middle and came up with an orange threat colour). I ran the AVG and Lavasoft virus scans (just to double check) and they did not inform me of any such threat after running their virus scan.

After reading a few articles on the net, it seems as if viewpoint is not actually a virus but a piece of multimedia software.


And of course I have to pay $40 dollars to paretologic to get rid of this 'virus'.



I wanted to know what people think about this and how should I proceed?


Regards,


Cheekyzinho

amateur

Hi,

Welcome to TSF.

I don't know about Paretologic antivirus software, but their XoftSpy used to be a rogue program with a lot of false positives.
I assume you already have an antivirus application installed on your system anyway.

Viewpoint is considered foistware. If you want to remove Viewpoint, you can download Viewpoint Killer

• Save it to your Desktop
• Create a new folder in your desktop by right clicking on the background > New > Folder > name the folder Viewpoint Killer
• Unzip the contents of the zip file to the newly created folder.
• Open the Viewpoint Killer folder then run ViewpointKiller, and select File > Do All Killings.
• Follow the prompts, selecting Yes or No, depending on which selection you are most comfortable with.

More info

cheekyzinho

Wow thanks a lot!

amateur

You're welcome.