There is a new vicious virus around called "Personal Antivirus" which looks exactly like AVG which pops up and tells you that your system is infected with a trojan virus and it tells you to do a scan
with it which naturally you do and then here comes the hitch. It does the scan then tells you , you
are infected and asks you if you want to remove all the infected things which you click yes then it says you have to get the licence. Its a scheme to make you buy there soft ware. With alot of googling the way to get rid of it is to download malwarebytes it has got rid of it but am having it checked tomorrow just incase any trace of it is still in the system.
This virus looks exactly like your avg those of you who use avg.

If anyone does get this virus download Malwarebytes works a treat.

Thanks for the heads-up!
We use Norton, but have AVG installed at work!

thanks cos of your headsup i was able to avoid this one I think....
had some probs but hopefully not anymore

another scam is sites putting you need to upgrade your flash or adobe
and when u click on the upgrade which looks completely legit
its a scam and downloads a virus or something maybe same thing as above not sure

anyhow they say you should only upgrade anything from initial source
be careful though cos it looks so legit!

wow scammers are getting really sneaky nowdays scary

Lesson to be learnt dont click on anything your not sure of..wish I didnt but all is good now

I too had this pop up and i thought thats odd my AVG said all was fine. I closed it and scanned my computer instead of clicking the box... LUCKY for me

did it actually come up as virus detected and deleted?

Ive downloaded 3 more major virus checkers and scanned to be on safe side
they all disagree with eachother eg some find nothing couple find cookies one found something sounded more alarming
its hard to know just how much we need to do these days to be safe

Sorry just saw this.. it came up looking exactly like avg and it said I had a trojan virus
and it came up so quick that I clicked without realising it wasnt the normal avg and I couldnt
get rid of it. It is a scam for you to buy their software.

thanks