Over the last months the Web has been constantly bombed by trojan viruses. If you can spend a couple of minutes to look at websites of antivirus software makers, then you'll notice that several spots of Top 10 current threats are occupied by Trojans. And I bet you'll find there Zlob and Virtumonde -- these two Trojans seem to compete with other types of malware with ease.



Virtumonde and Zlob are, among other activities, responsible for the spread of KVM Secure, a rogue application that claims to remove infections and protect the system from a wide variety of threats. KVMsecure makes part of the huge army of fake antispyware programs with many of which is shares even similar design pattern, interface, and continuous ads popping up on the desktop to annoy the user.

Most of these scam programs follow same scheme. They flood the desktop with scary messages "spyware found", they display warnings in the tray "your system is infected", they redirect browsers to websites which display a "scan progress window" with the number of detected infections increasing.

Because it masquerades Windows Security Center, and uses same color palette as Microsoft products, for many less-savvy PC users out there KVM Secure is sure to look credible. Even its aggressive tactics to make the user pay for a license key don't look suspicious. Anyway, these days even legit products may behave very annoyingly. And some victims of this type of malware choose to pay for KVMsecure in the desperate hope to get rid of those detected Trojans.

This is a waste of time and money. Nothing changes after the license code is copy-pasted, and there's no guarantee the code will be emailed to the purchaser.

Unfortunately, rogue programs of this kinds act on the edge of antivirus and antispyware detection algorithms bypassing the PC protection systems. Computers protected by antivirus software with latest definitions get infected with KVMSecure just about as often as totally insecure PC's. One of the reasons to explain such a paradox is that KVM secure malware has been designed to fool most popular AV software on the market. Just several AV software vendors control a huge share of the market, and that's why a little change in the code of KVMsecure opens millions of PC's to its invasion.

It's important to note, though, that if to stay protected against KVMsecure you will have to install some additional software (not necessarily, but most likely), then KVMsecure removal can be done without the use of any programs. It's possible to remove KVMsecure manually. However, do not forget that this rogue antispyware comes bundled with a trojan. Together they act as in a duet making a computer a playground to try most unethical marketing techniques. That trojan is much tougher to remove, and in most cases a special cleaning software is needed.