What is Anti-Virus-1 or AntiVirus-1 ?

Anti-Virus-1 (AntiVirus-1)

Description:
Anti-Virus-1 (or AntiVirus-1) is a clone of the infamous rogue anti-spyware Antivirus 360 and Antivirus 2010, a fake software that displays fake security results to scare the user into purchasing the program. The purpose of these fake anti-malware programs is to scam you out of your money.
Anti-Virus-1 is promoted by fake online website scanners or by Trojans such as “Vundo trojan” that will infect your computer and prompt you to download it.
After automatically starting itself and scanning the user’s system, Anti-Virus-1 will list several fake threats and intentionally misrepresent the security status of a computer.
The security alerts from the taskbar, that Anti-Virus-1 displays when it is running, say that the user’s system is infect by various unwanted programs or security risks. But these security alerts are only used to scare the user into thinking that his system is badly infected and thereby he has to purchase this rogue security tool.
Anti-Virus-1 attempts to convince the user that he or she must remove potentially unwanted programs or security risks (usually nonexistent or fake) from the computer. Anti-Virus-1 will hold the user hostage by refusing to allow him or her to remove or fix the phantom problems until the “required” software is purchased and installed.

Vendor: Anti-Virus-1
Vendor URL: http://antivirus1-download.info
http://av1-download.info
http://antivirus1-site.info
http://av1-site.info
Threat Level: Moderate Risk
Anti-Virus-1 Characteristics:
- Displays ads.
- Hijacks internet browser.
- Makes fraudulent claims about spyware detection and removal.