Browsing the web and a tab in IE7 seemed to get redirected to this

http: // www . sg10scanner . com - spaces in URL so no one clicks on it.

with an annoying dialogue box with OK or Cancel wittering on about Spyware Guard 2008.

Now I hit control alt delete and killed iexplore because I assume that pressing any button would start downloading some rubbish to my computer, but it also seems to work in Firefox 3.0.5 with the dialogue box.

Anyway, look out for that URL, anyone dared ventured to see what it actually does? How can you stop it if other sites do this? I've entered the address into my local HOSTS file so it redirects to 127.0.0.1 so won't see it again but of course other sites could do this...

Screenshot below:

I'd like to know what website you were on in the first place to pick this up, or maybe I shouldn't ask!??

Seriously, a good AV should pick this up straight away so I'd be concerned about this first.

I'd check your machine out (with AV and Malware Bytes) just in case it has downloaded anything without you being aware of it. Also, check your pop up settings too in IE and Firefox.

Never really bothered or had the time to see what happens in VM but I'd imagine it would be Trojan related.

Mcafee's siteadvisor and firewall always trigger for rouge sites.

Report that one to Mozilla, and they'll add it to their malware site list. Stops Firefox even going there

I came across this Spyware Guard 2008 Virus not so long ago on my cousins PC. It basically disabled is Anti-Virus (AVG) and wanted him to "Install" Spyware Guard 2008. After several virus scans it would find and delete it but it would just replicate and come back.

It had even taken over both browsers and wouldn't let you search for Spyware Guard 2008 to try to find a fix. I eventually found a fix which involved booting in safe mode and manually deleting registry entries and unregistering a few DLL's. It took me a good while to do this and when I thought I had finished I restarted but the virus was still there. In the end I gave up and just formatted it and started again.

I'm in uni doing Computing and Information Systems and it is a well known virus by the technicians and by some of the others on the course. Everyone tends to agree that its a b*****d to get rid of and the easiest way to get rid of it is to format it and start again.

I encountered a computer that had been infected with Spywareguard. Once it is installed it disables your AV, doesn't let you install any anti-spyware programs and when you google it, it diverts you to random web sites. It gets you to install it by posting false spyware alerts and cons you into paying a fee for it to remove the spyware.

After many hours I did manage to remove it, though at one point I lost explorer so it was booting to a blank desktop.

a lodger killed my old laptop with spyware (dont ask what he was looking at). Search for adaware on google, that cleaned it up for me! and it's free. Then use wise registry cleaner and wise disc cleaner - also free.