Is loaris Trojan remover a scam ... when you first scan your computer a number of false positives appear ... it seems that perhaps this happens so you are forced into buying the program?

Answer 1

Yes.

I represent Billings Information Technology Service. We have run a thorough test on this software and determined it to be a "Scam" and more importantly, a program that give false positives as well as injects code into the computer, so that it can then detect it as a Trojan.

TEST COMPUTER

New Toshiba Tecra A11 S3510

Symantec internet Security 2010

Results: Symantec did not detect the download itself as a threat. However after installing, I ran the "Scan" from within Loaris which produced some interesting results. First, it detected safe files such as Autorun.inf in the Windows directory as a threat and systray.exe, 000StTHK.exe. More importantly, it introduced tmp.edb and log.txt, threats it detected as Trojans. Interesting enough, log.txt, a file that is locked and created by Loaris Trojan Remover.

Reminds me of the car mechanic that was hired to fix the engine and introduced other problems to ensure the client would pay for services that weren't needed. Also reminds me when BB got slammed for diagnosing a computer problem as a motherboard replacement when all that was needed to be done was to plug in the IDE cable.

Scam is too nice of a word.