Published in March 31st, 2009
Description of Ultra Antivir2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Ultra Antivir2009 (Ultra Antivir 2009) is not to be confused with Ultra Antivirus, Ultra Antivirus 2008 and Ultra Antivirus 2009. Though all the above names designate rogue programs, Ultra Antivir2009 has likely been issued and is promoted by other hackers as it is based [...]
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Published in March 28th, 2009
Description of System Protector and consequences of its residing on your PC
System Protector (SystemProtector) is advertised trough the use of trojans and ad banners and popups as mediators. These banners, popups and trojans either lead to the downloading link of trial version of System Protector or redirect the browsing to fake online scanners, e.g. sys-look-scan.biz. [...]
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Published in March 26th, 2009
Description of Conficker.C and consequences of its residing on your PC
First of all, it should be noted that the popular question about Conficker.C (Conficker C) whether this program is especially or exclusively harmful on April 1 All Fools’ Day only has the answer that Conficker.C removal is a must for those who want their computer [...]
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Published in March 26th, 2009
Description of Virus Alarm and consequences of its residing on your PC
Virus Alarm (VirusAlarm) is typically promoted through the misleading banners and pop-ups. These pop-ups and banners make your browser download online fake scanner of Virus Alarm. However, this scanner does not perform actual scan but scares users with same fake results. Users are normally [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
Description of FileFix Professional and consequences of its residing on your PC
FileFix Professional is another malware of quite unusual behavior. The program may be manually installed as a trial version or installed as a full version through the online purchase form. However, there are not so many users that would install this unknown application by [...]
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Published in March 24th, 2009
Description of Total Security and consequences of its residing on your PC
Likewise most malware programs, Total Security (TotalSecurity) is mainly advertised with its trial (promo) version. However, you are very likely to have experience with absolutely legitimate programs that also provide users with the free trial version to the purpose of advertisement, so the fact [...]
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Published in March 18th, 2009
Description of General Antivirus and consequences of its residing on your PC
General Antivirus (GeneralAntivirus) represents the achievements of rascals united in the group named Innovagest. The group also develops and promotes other fake security tools. The most notorious names among them are Internet Antivirus Pro and Alfa Cleaner. General Antivirus is adverted through the promo-version [...]
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Published in March 17th, 2009
Description of WinPC Defender and consequences of its residing on your PC
WinPC Defender (WinPCDefender) is a fake security tool from experienced in doing malware hackers. Other fake security tools the same hackers have developed are XP Police Antivirus, IE-Security, WinDefender 2009 and Total Secure 2009. Remove WinPC Defender as it is recommended to remove any [...]
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Published in March 16th, 2009
Description of Personal Antivirus and consequences of its residing on your PC
Personal Antivirus (PersonalAntivirus) is a near clone of General Antivirus. The program has been detected after General Antivirus had been disclosed, and is supposedly a successor of it. Attempting to make users pay for Personal Antivirus, hackers infect them with promo-version or make them [...]
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Published in March 16th, 2009
Description of Anti-Virus Number 1 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Anti-Virus Number 1 (AntiVirus Number 1) is a program with flatulent name that varies very slightly in all of its characteristics from the parental programs, which names are Anti-Virus 1 and Antivirus 2010. The sooner you remove Anti-Virus Number 1, the less damage [...]
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Published in March 14th, 2009
Description of Spyware Fighter and consequences of its residing on your PC
Spyware Fighter (SpywareFighter) is another program that is the tool through which hackers harm computers and perform identity thefts exposing the confidential data that you have ever entered to settle the payment via Internet. However, one may wonder whether it is not the main [...]
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Published in March 13th, 2009
Description of TotalAntispyware and consequences of its residing on your PC
The main peculiarity of TotalAntispyware (Total Antispyware) is how it could infect so many thousands of users without being adverted through fake scanners. However, that may mean that its promo-websites are well hidden and none of victims have not yet revealed the address at wide [...]
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Published in March 11th, 2009
Description of AntiSpyware Pro 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
AntiSpyware Pro 2009 (AntiSpywarePro 2009) is another well-known and quite old malware program. The threat is still challenging though. You need to remove AntiSpyware Pro 2009 rather for its impact on your computer than for its impact on you (various ads). However, it [...]
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Published in March 11th, 2009
Description of Malware Defender 2009 and consequences of its residing on your PC
Malware Defender 2009 is a misleading application that pretends to perform the functions of antispyware program attempting to make users believe they have a large heap of infections to remove with Malware Defender 2009. In fact, you should first of all remove Malware [...]
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Published in March 4th, 2009
Description of Virus Melt and consequences of its residing on your PC
It is necessary to tell Melt virus (a virus called Melt) from rogue antispyware Virus Melt (VirusMelt). That rogue antispyware is a pretty typical adware promoted mainly thorough the trialware.
There are total of 3 typical schemes of duping users with Virus Melt.
1. with trialware: [...]
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