As far as I know, this Antivirus xp2008 is a trojan and a scam. There are some removal tools on the web that I myself have no experience with. But you can try SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/

Once the Antivirus XP 2008 is off, try Dial a Fix,http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Dial-a-fix-Download-27328.html
This should repair any components of the OS which have been damaged in the cleanup.

when i infected my notebook with this and tried to remove it, it kept regenerating itself after a restart. i ended up wiping the hard drive and reinstalling windows, but that was just my test computer. norton ghost or any back up program is worth the money and time.

Sounds like you have a severe infection. You likely need to run a HiJackThis scan and post the results in the security forums I've listed below.

To Download HijackThis go to the following link below:

http://www.trendsecure.com/por.....s/download

1. Click on the "Download" button at the top of the page, then click on the "Download HijackThis Installer" link that will appear . . . it's the very first one.

2. Save HJTInstall.exe to your desktop.

3. Doubleclick on the HJTInstall.exe icon on your desktop. You may get the "open file - security warning" window asking you if you want to run the file. If so, just click "Run".

4. Click "Install". By default it will install HJT to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis and create a HJT icon on your desktop and launch HJT.

5. Click on the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button. It will scan and then save the log to Notepad.

6. Close HJT by clicking on the "X".

7. At the top of the Notepad HJT log screen, hit Edit then Select All then click Edit and then click Copy (doing that copies the text to the clipboard, you won't see it yet....)

8. Go to any of the the Malware Removal forums listed below and Paste the log in a new thread. (To paste - if you use IE as your browser - just click on the "Edit" menu selection, and then "Paste" in the drop down menu)

DO NOT have HijackThis fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required. WAIT until a security expert AT ONE OF THE SITES LISTED BELOW looks at your log and interprets it and posts a reply.

Aumha forum: http://forum.aumha.org/viewfor.....8c4c5ebcec

Bleeping Computer: http://www.bleepingcomputer.co.....rum22.html

Geeks to Go: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum.....e-f37.html

Major Geeks: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

Malware removal: http://malwareremoval.com/foru.....b09dfbfc16

Spyware Info: http://www.spywareinfoforum.co.....owforum=18

Tech Support Guy: http://forums.techguy.org/54-m.....this-logs/

What the Tech (formerly Tom Coyote forum): http://forums.whatthetech.com/.....l_f27.html

Be sure to read all the sticky announcements/instructions at the top of each malware forum!

You will probably have to register to post.

Another option you can try is to run a SuperAntiSpyware scan. Sometimes this alone will find and remove malware. But even if it says it does, I'd still do the HJT scan AFTER SAS and post it on those security forums.

And if all this gets too tedious, the best thing to do may be to reformat and reinstall. And if you have a clean image, as whs and Rick have suggested, that is by far the easiest way to go. The only reason to go through the tedious removal steps on the security forums is if 1) You don't have backups of your data, and/or 2) You don't have a clean image ready to substitute.

If you're anxious to do a format and reinstall and don't want to wait for responses from the security folks on those forums where you pasted your HJT log, then go ahead. But FIRST, BEFORE you launch into this, save all your valuable data to removable media.

Follow these instructions here http://www.winsupersite.com/sh....._clean.asp exactly. Pay particular attention to Step 6 in the preinstallation checklist, because that stresses the importance of backing up your data files BEFORE you do this.

Scroll a little bit down the page and you'll see the step-by-step instructions for doing this in "Clean installing Windows XP", along with screen shots to guide you.

PRINT THE WHOLE THING OUT BEFORE YOU START because you won't be able to get on line (obviously) while you're formatting/installing!!

Oh, one more thing BEFORE you do this. Write down all your licenses/registrations to any free software you downloaded and installed. These can usually be found in the "Help>About" menu.

And if you already had XP on your machine, you can ignore a lot of the stuff about upgrading from 9X on the web page.

Oh . . . one more thing (I seem to keep remembering stuff here), did you have to download any special drivers for any of your hardware?? If so, then you may want to download those drivers again BEFORE you start and save them to removable media so that you can have something available if you need it.

Woops . . . remembered another tip . . . make sure you have all your ISP and email passwords available for when you can get back on line.

And I'm assuming you have your original Windows CD available for this. Make sure you have the Prodct Key available . . . you'll need it.

Now that I think of it, read through those instructions and post back here if you have any questions about it BEFORE you start.

So, here's a checklist of all the stuff you need to do BEFORE you start:

1. Get your Windows CD (without this, all bets are off)

2. Get the Windows CD Product Key (again, without this, all bets are off)

3. Back up all your valuable data to removable media.

4. Go to that web page I linked to above and print out the instructions.

5. Go to that web page I linked to above, read it ALL, and post back here if you have any questions.

6. Download and save any special drivers to removable media.

7. Write down your registrations/licenses to any software that you got off the Net.

8. Write down your ISP and email User ID's and Passwords.

That's it . . . good luck.