'Personal Security' posing as antivirus - is it a virus?

Viruses and worms
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I have an unregistered programme called Personal Security on my PC. I am running the last XP update. It appeared on Thursday 3 December (New Zealand). I can’t delete it via ‘Add/Remove Programmes’ I get the message “the removal features have been disabled”. Windows has detected a problem and has restarted once. What can I do?

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Hi DesBre,

Try a boot time scan with avast! Right click the scanner screen, select ‘schedule a boot time scan’ and reboot when requested. (Or open the tab at the top left of the scanner screen and select the boot time option from there.)

Try the usual free adware/spyware scanners.

Spybot Search & Destroy
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

Download, install and update the programs.
Always select the option to quarantine any malware found rather than delete it, then you will be able to restore files or registry entries wrongly identified as malware- a rare but not unknown event for any malware scanner.

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It’s not a real anti-virus. Take a look here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-personal-security
and also here:http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-personal-security.html

Use MalwareBytes, it should be able to remove this virus.