You have got to be kidding.....like a bat out of hell your antivirus promotion appeared on my computer...almost impossible to get rid of nagging efforts to sign me up...your software claimed to have found x number of viruses...after briefly installing your ware ( it was the only way to get rid of your promotion) this was to have been removed..Fraud, these virus items never existed in the first place.
...soonafter I received the same forced ads on my computer...again..this time called antivirus2009 instead of 2008...same or similar viruscomponent detected, fraud I figured and cancelled the thing.
I am not using your software, I have no idea what you want from me at this time and unless there is some kind of copycat outfit I consider what you are doing and your methods as clear fraud I want to expose...phonebusters.com will be sent a copy of this and I hope they will assist in stopping this kind of nonsense.I am using legitimate, purchased antivirus software, not your stuff and in order to clean up my computer I was forced to upgrade to xp professional, after dumping your software the machine never worked properly with the original xp.
This, above, was my response to an e mail just received....
This is the e mail, six months after the incident:-
>From: "support" <administrator1@antivirus2008y.com>>To: "F...L..." <xxxxxxx>>Subject: For user of the program «Antivirus 2008».>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 07:23:18 +0100>>>>>>>>>>Esteemed F....L.... user of the program «Antivirus 2008».>>>>>On 2008-06-17 your have used the website http://www.antivirus2008y.com/ to purchase the copyrighted software «Antivirus 2008», which is our private property.>As the owners of the product we haven’t received the funds you paid for it yet. Your actions are in the nature of theft and fraud. We are preparing papers for the police and the courts to bring you to criminal liability to recover the monetary damages you brought.>For a complete clarification of the incident and to resolve the arisen conflict by a peace settlement, we need your cooperation. To do this you have to send us a written confirmation of purchasing our software. (the text of the letter you have to send is attached, please print it and fill in the fields «from ______», indicating your name, address, phone number, e-mail and other data identifying your person and sign the letter). Attaching the copy of a bank payment document confirming the payment for the purchased software (check, receipt, money orders, bank statements or other) to your letter is obligatory.>You must send good quality scan of your filled letter and bank payment document within 3 days after receiving this warning to e-mail support@antivirus2008y.com>In case no response from you is received we reserve the right to go to court and the police for your action are illegal to recover the monetary damage you brought.>>>Thank you for your understanding and look forward to a peaceful resolution of the conflict arisen.>>>Sincerely http://www.antivirus2008y.com/ site Administration.>>
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The rest of the story:-
Some six months ago my computer was molested with an ad message...for free...no charge ...a certain programme would scan my confuser and tell me if there were any virus components of any sort on my machine...
Impossible to get rid of this message, I took the FREE test and indeed..apparently 50 some odd serious virus related items were found by this outfit...free up to this point...but for a relatively small amount of money, they would instantly dispose of these nagging uglies on my machine.
I was stupid enough to give this outfit my visa info...and found later that I was billed not only for the antivirus program but also for two other items, a scan thing to use daily and a years free advise or something like that.
Aside from that....with my virus crap all cleaned up, supposedly, a new ad appeared on my machine....this time it was called the same as the last one,except instead of 2008...they used 2009...
Curious I took the test...and sure enough..the program detected 50 some odd virus related component on my machine. Guess I'm a little slow, but I suspected a scam, called my Visa/ Bank people and cancelled the payment.
A third party billing company apologised and eventually processed the refund....well.
I should have taken other actions, reported this to the Internet police or something but I'm getting too old to fight idiotic scams and let it go, unfortunately.
Now, six months later, it looks like this outfit, scam artists, is coming out of the woodwork, threatening me with police action and trying to collect money from me.
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