Removal attempts may be unsuccessful and SpySheriff may reinstall itself.Its user interface features a progress bar and counts allegedly found threats, but its scan results are deliberately false, with cryptic names such as "Trojan VX …" to mislead and scare the user. SpySheriff is designed to behave like genuine antispyware software.The blog credits itself with accurately predicting the outcome of the election. In late 2019, the website became a WordPress blog about the 2020 United States presidential election. At the beginning of 2018, the site redirected to the scam site and others however, from October 2018, it existed as a simple HTML markup with a top-level heading reading, " Inc.". In 2017, the domain hosted a blank page, with only the word "goggle" in its HTML script. From 2015, (which had changed ownership following a lawsuit by Google) hosted a survey scam and displayed links to Amazon items. Several typosquatted websites also attempted to automatically install SpySheriff, including a fake version of called. Several other similarly-named websites also hosted the program but have all been shut down. SpySheriff was hosted at both and which operated from 2005 until their shutdown in 2008. JSTOR ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. However, SpySheriff can be removed by an experienced user, antivirus software, or by using a rescue disk. The software is particularly difficult to remove, since it nests its components in System Restore folders, and also blocks some system management tools. Like other rogue antiviruses, after producing a list of false threats, it prompts the user to pay to remove them.
It attempts to mislead the user with false security alerts, threatening them into buying the program. SpySheriff is malware that disguises itself as anti-spyware software.
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