19 March 2009
Renus 2008 – rogue spyware remover
Renus 2008 is a rogue anti-spyware application, fake spyware remover. Usually, it enters the system using trojan viruses, spam e-mail attachments or it can come combined with another malicious programs. Once installed, Renus 2008 uses misleading tactics how to scare the user and make him believe that his PC is seriously infected.
After infection, Renus 2008 performs fake system scan and reports various fallacious results flooding the system with pop-up windows and similar alert notifications. Obviously those infections were all made up in order to scare the user, hopping that he will buy a full verion of rogue Renus 2008 application for infections removal. However, this application is unable to detect or remove any kind og infections, simply because it is an infection itself. You should remove Renus 2008 from the system as soon as possible after detection.
More information:
Renus 2008 description and manual removal instructions