Published in September 2nd, 2010
Description of Win7 AV consequences of its residing on your PC
“Try it know” – website of the scamware suggests. It is very likely that your machine has already tried a part of this infection as the website, if you see it in your browser window, has likely been opened thanks to the efforts of browser [...]
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Published in September 2nd, 2010
Description of AntiSpy Safeguard consequences of its residing on your PC
AntiSpy Safeguard, aka AntiSpySafeGuard, is aimed at forcing and scarring users into buying it. Its mission does not imply any benefits for its users. The program is adware and rogue antispyware. It makes its way into host computer systems through the trickery built on fake [...]
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Published in September 1st, 2010
Description of SpyDefender 2010 consequences of its residing on your PC
Russian speaking audience is mainly targeted by this release of rogue antispyware. However, it does not mean that it targets only Russian part of the worldwide web. The badware is available for download as a trialware in almost any part of the web. That is, [...]
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Published in August 31st, 2010
Description of AV Security Suite Platinum consequences of its residing on your PC
Unfortunately, some poor users have already purchased the Platinum version of AV Security Suite. This version of the software is less annoying than its demo version. In the wild, the demo might even induce system freezes unintentionally and simply because of its alerts [...]
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Published in August 30th, 2010
Description of Pest Detector 4.1 consequences of its residing on your PC
A heuristic module installation is a request by Pest Detector 4.1 (PestDetector 4.1) as it is needed to repair mistakes in web-browser or other software, according to the alert generated by that program. The demanded module is one of the methods of extortion applied [...]
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Published in August 29th, 2010
Description of Major Defense Kit consequences of its residing on your PC
The choice of thirty five applications is provided in the window entitled Microsoft Security Essentials Alert. Major Defense Kit is one of five applications able to find the trojan on which the alert notifies. The infection is a scarecrow and the five applications allegedly [...]
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Published in August 28th, 2010
Description of Peak Protection 2010 consequences of its residing on your PC
Peak Protection 2010 is a new remedy utilized solely to scaring purposes. The side effect of its activities will be system slowing down and failure of certain software to run. However, the latter is not a side-effect as that is a deliberate harm caused [...]
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Published in August 27th, 2010
Description of AWM Antivirus consequences of its residing on your PC
Complete system protection is understood by this variant of fake system security tool in very special way. The first three words in the previous sentence make a motto of AWM Antivirus. To have your system completely protected by the fake antivirus is to have no [...]
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Published in August 26th, 2010
Description of AV Defender 2011 consequences of its residing on your PC
AV Defender 2011 (AVDefender 2011) is one of the first applications that look ahead into the year of 2011 remaining, however, just the same, in general, as any other rogue antispyware in 2010. The rogue is available in three variants, both are equally annoying [...]
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Published in August 26th, 2010
Description of Red Cross Antivirus consequences of its residing on your PC
Red Cross Antivirus is one of the five infections available for free after another infection is introduced. This software is posed as antivirus while it has inherited worst traits of a virus. It is actually unwanted software as without applying special techniques Red Cross [...]
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Published in August 23rd, 2010
Description of Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert popup consequences of its residing on your PC
The Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert popups aim at promoting fake system security products, which are fake system utilities:
• Red Cross Antivirus
• Pest Detector 4.1
• Major Defense Kit
• Peak Protection 2010
• AntiSpy Safeguard
The source of the popup is a trojan. It [...]
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Published in August 21st, 2010
Description of Advanced Security Tool 2010 consequences of its residing on your PC
Advanced Security Tool 2010 is a computer infection distributed with trojans and viruses, as well as uploaded manually by users from its website. The infection pretends to be a remedy against other infections. Other infections found by this remedy are pretended infections, for [...]
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Published in August 20th, 2010
Description of AV Checker consequences of its residing on your PC
Rogue antispyware product is usually understood as a trial version of fake antispyware. The trial version looks like a regular program and only some features of the program are disabled.
AV Checker (AVChecker) does not go this way. Unlike most of the rogue antispyware releases, AV [...]
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Published in August 18th, 2010
Description of Security Suite Pro consequences of its residing on your PC
Developers and distributors of rogue antispyware families boost up their business by releasing new clones. Being a clone of Security Suite, Security Suite Pro is rather a new name than new software. It has the same detection name as clones of its family released [...]
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Published in August 17th, 2010
Description of Win32/FakeSpypro consequences of its residing on your PC
Rogue antispyware is known to be mainly released in groups of programs constituting families of clones. The clones in such groups may represent a variation of one and same rogue. A striking example of such case is Win32/FakeSpypro.
The trojan in its different modifications represents the following [...]
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