Published in October 31st, 2008
Description of Personal Defender 2009 (PersonalDefender 2009) and consequences of its residing on your PC
Personal Defender 2009 is delivered to users according to various schemes. The most poplar and well-studied technique is based on Trojan-Keylogger.WIN32.Fung pop-up. The workflow of this trickery starts with installation of trojan generating pop-up that pretends to be a Windows Firewall. [...]
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Published in October 31st, 2008
Description of WinDefender 2009 (Win Defender 2009) and consequences of its residing on your PC
WinDefender 2009 or Win Defender 2009 is of the same origin and very similar in denomination with WinDefender 2008. Both these names designate fake security tool that pretends to remove real threats. Well, in contrast to WinDefender 2008, WinDefender 2009 finds [...]
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Published in October 31st, 2008
Description of AntispywareXP 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
AntispywareXP 2009 successfully uses designations which make users associate it with Windows and thus consider it as Microsoft-approved software. It is understood that AntispywareXP 2009, fake malware removal tool which activities result in system crush unless AntispywareXP 2009 removal is executed in due time, [...]
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Published in October 30th, 2008
Description of Secure File Shredder and consequences of its residing on your PC
Secure File Shredder is dangerous as files listed in its threats list are harmless and sometimes very important for your system functioning. If Secure File Shredder has been installed at your PC, you should see its scan in progress and its results. I [...]
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Published in October 29th, 2008
Description of AntiVirus Sentry and consequences of its residing on your PC
Except the name there is nothing new in AntiVirus Sentry (AntiVirusSentry). If you have ever visited web-site of AntiVirus Sentry, you may remember clichés used for this malware promotion. Al these clichés have already been utilized by predecessors of this rogue. Likewise previous malware [...]
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Published in October 29th, 2008
Description of Antivirus Plus and consequences of its residing on your PC
Antivirus Plus or AntivirusPlus, instead of removing and detecting real threats, captures enormous system recourses to the purpose of system slowing down which, in its turn, has the final goal to make users of infected machine waste its money, i.e. pay for registration of [...]
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Published in October 26th, 2008
Description of Antivirus VIP and consequences of its residing on your PC
Antivirus VIP or AntivirusVIP is a new clone of Antivirus XP 2008 or a new member of XP Antiviris group. It seems to be that at the mid of October major efforts of hackers pushing fake security tools of the above group were directed [...]
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Published in October 25th, 2008
Description of Antispyware XP 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Remove Antispyware XP 2009 (AntispywareXP2009 or AntispywareXP 2009) as soon as you can as this is rather dangerous system devastator than just annoying adware. In contrast to rather moderate predecessors, this application acts very sharply aiming to shock users with evident system disordering [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2008
Description of PC Defender 2008 and consequences of its residing on your PC
PC Defender 2008 is characterized as malware with excessive among semi-type rogues intensity of victim’s system resources consumption. Other distinct traits are not observed. However, if you do not want your PC to run as slow as slug and snails do, your decision [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2008
Description of Pro Antispyware 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Pro Antispyware 2009 (ProAntispyware 2009) is the new entry to malware pile that already includes such notorious particles as Antispyware Pro PC and Antispyware 2008 XP. This group of fake malware removers was developed by one and the same bunch of crooks residing [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2008
Description of Security 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Security 2009 or Security2009 was developed by the hackers who developed SpyProtector, and Security2009 does not differ much from SpyProtector. Experts recommended to remove SpyProtector, now they are advising to remove Security 2009. The reasons to get rid of Security 2009 are literally the [...]
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Published in October 21st, 2008
Description of Antivirus Plasma and consequences of its residing on your PC
Experts would reasonably assure you that texts used as advertisement at the home-page of Antivirus Plasma (AntivirusPlasma) have already been used for marketing of notorious fake virus and malware removers. In general, this is sufficient background to accuse Antivirus Plasma of unfairness and failure [...]
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Published in October 21st, 2008
Description of SpyProtector and consequences of its residing on your PC
SpyProtector (Spy Protector) gives promises to protect your PC and to remove spyware, adware and viruses, but often it is SpyProtector trialware enters your machine accompanied with viruses, moreover, SpyProtector is malicious application itself. Standard technique of fake scan window displaying both online and from [...]
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Published in October 16th, 2008
Description of XLG Privacy Control Center and consequences of its residing on your PC
XLGuarder and XLG Security Center were used as templates in development of XLG Privacy Control Center. The same statement is applicable to methods of marketing; likewise majority of fake removers, XLG Privacy Control Center and its prenatal programs pin their hopes on [...]
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Published in October 15th, 2008
Description of Antivirus2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Unless you remove Antivirus2009 trail version very soon after its initial conspicuity (the signs are described below), system deterioration may become irreversible, owing to deletion of files and system destabilization executed by this rogue. Such actions are taken intentionally to scare user of victim’s computer [...]
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