Sneaky New Virus

[Saul Mine]

Sneaky New Virus Removes Your Antivirus Protection (http://www.livescience.com/technology/virus-removes-antivirus-protection-100823.html)

There’s a new breed of malicious malware program spreading across the Web that tricks users into uninstalling the legitimate antivirus software on their computers.

[Glass]

Does it activate when you click on links posted by people on forums? ;)

edit: I have come across anvi virus before and it does what they say it does. It is not the first of it's type that I have seen however it was the first one that was fairly easy to remove using malware bytes and none of the painfully long winded manual removal techniques these things usually require.