Kinda suspicious about the Spyware Doctor program.

[KRDsonic]

(I'm posting this in this section of the forum because TDF hasn't made any other sections that it fits)

Has anyone noticed all of the Spyware Doctor ads that have been popping up on websites, just a week or two after people started getting the new bad version of the Antispyware Soft virus? Kinda makes me wonder if the makers of Spyware Doctor programmed that virus themselves to make people buy their spyware scanner, especially since every guide about how to get rid of that virus says to use Spyware Doctor and that it's a free program, then when you download it and it finishes the scan it says it'll only delete spyware from your computer if you pay for it. It just seems too questionable to me.

It also seemed interesting to me, seeing as their is another easy-to-find antispyware program that really is free and works just as well, and detected the same viruses and spyware that Spyware Doctor detected for me when I still had that virus. So since that was the case, seems odd that every guide would tell you to download Spyware Doctor, which is a paid program, and lie and tell you that it's free, when there is an actual free antispyware program out there that wasn't mentioned in a single top guide for removing the Antispyware/Antivirus Soft spyware/virus unless they created the guides and virus themselves to get more money from people.

[G-Virus]

You know, now that I think about it, something that had to do with the same software happened to me a couple of months ago. It said I had viruses and then made me go to a site where you had to buy the software to get rid of them.

[hydroxianchaos]

Do you think it could effect mobile devices? My iPod has been acting a little strange lately... It actually has been freezing.

[KRDsonic]

Windows viruses target Windows computers, not cell phones.

[Chaosky]

That's one thing I love about browsing the internet with the Wii.


As for your suspicions, that's not at all unlikely. If that is the case, however, these aren't just some basement hackers who live with their parents.






I was actually told (by the person who fixed my computer) that the virus was a kind made by a sort of mafia, or just some big group executing a large scale scam.

So yes, I'd say you're probably right.