I am posting out this message so it gets know on the web to everybody.
Spyhunter is the biggest scam on the web and I'll tell you why.
I bought Spyhunter after being infected. When I installed it, it discovered and fixed 212 threats.
Strange that AVG had seen none of those threats.
After that first scan, it reported threats everyday, some of them repetitively, while I wasn't downloading anything nor visiting suspected websites.
I had gotten suspicious already when paying (but neglected my internal warning signs out of panic about my infected laptop) because I paid by Paypal and got redirected from enigmasoftware.com to safecart.com, own by Revenuewire.
I was thinking: what company calls themselves Revenuewire???
Then in de order confirming email Spyhunter told me I was on automatic renewal but it would be easy to switch that off through the payment provider. I went to search for my Safecart account but I did not HAVE a Safecart account, although they had sent me an email. Now I got more suspicious. I went to my Paypal account and saw that Safecart had obtained permission for automatic payment every 6 months!
I googled and found that there is a special page for people who have been duped by Safecart on their Paypal account, some of them even get charged for stuff they never ordered but still have to pay for. On this page a Paypal employee gives you tips how to stop the automatic payments from within your Paypal account page.
I immediately uninstalled Spyhunter and bought Bitdefender Total Security. Bitdefender found no infections on my laptop at all and today I am still using it to great satisfaction.
Yesterday I went into my Spyhunter account to ask for a deletion of the account. But also, I had noticed that my password for that account is just my first name and last name together. Now how vicious can you be? This is THE ultimate proof for me that Spyhunter is malware, because what antimalware company would 1. send you the password by email 2. make a password that is the most unsafe ever 3. forbid you to change the password (when I asked for it, the answer was:
Response for your Enigma Software Group account information request:
Account Information:
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**USERNAME: firstname.lastname@gmail.com
**PASSWORD: firstnamelastname
Thank you for your contact!
enigmasoftwaregroup.com
And then I started looking back. When did I buy and install Spyhunter? I looked into Paypal history. Yes, October 30th. Strange, because my Skrill credit card was hacked on November 4th from London and charges were tempted till on the 11 th of November a real charge was made. I discovered that the next morning and Skrill booked it back and canceled the credit card.
Putting things together: Oct. 10 installed Spyhunter, from a UK based company, paid through a UK based company.
Nov. 4th first attempt to charge on my Skrill credit card (a UK based company) from a person in London, UK (ordered sports good and pizza's in London).
Spyhunter scam fake in reality vicious malware - donotinstall spyhunter - spyhunter deceptive