{"id":200,"date":"2008-08-25T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-08-25T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:22:24","slug":"how-to-remove-xp-securitycenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/how-to-remove-xp-securitycenter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove XP SecurityCenter (malware)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a malware out there that makes itself look like it&#8217;s the XP Security Center, but it&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s malware and will tell you that your computer is infected with a virus.  The real XP Security Center will never tell you that your computer is infected with a virus because it is not an anti-virus program.  It only monitor&#8217;s your security software, which includes your anti-virus program.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the way to remove it is by downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/download.bleepingcomputer.com\/malwarebytes\/mbam-setup.exe\">Malwarebytes&#8217; Anti-Malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the instructions:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/malware-removal\/xp-securitycenter\">Instructions to Remove XP SecurityCenter Malware<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a malware out there that makes itself look like it&#8217;s the XP Security Center, but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s malware and will tell you that your computer is infected with a virus. The real XP Security Center will never tell you that your computer is infected with a virus because it is not an anti-virus program. It only monitor&#8217;s your security software, which includes your anti-virus program. In any case, the way to remove it is by downloading Malwarebytes&#8217; Anti-Malware. Here are the instructions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spyware-malware-browser-hijacking-etc","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}