Fake Antispyware Roaming Around Internet PDF Print E-mail
Written by TechiCore   
Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:22

Anti SpywareSimilar to the advanced development in anti-virus software, the number of viruses attacking computers especially from internet is growing significantly as well. Many experts work hard to find the best cure once the computer is critically infected. Many software are then improved in order to give the best protection as well as prohibit the viruses from attacking the machine.

Apparently, something dangerous is happening today, and name like Win 7 Antispyware 2012, Vista Antivirus 2012, and XP Security 2012 are actually the same rouge anti-spyware program. But they are promoted in two ways. The first one is by using the fake online antivirus scanners that inform your computer has been infected, thus you need to download a file that will install the infection.

The second method is by hacking a site that tries to exploit vulnerability in programs you run in your machine to install the infection without you knowing it, even without your permission. Through any ways the infection come the computer, this will install itself with a number of different program names or graphical user interface based on the version of Windows OS your computer running on.

The worse, people often don’t realize that once it is installed, it will act like a security up date for Windows installed through Automatic Updates. Afterward, it will install itself and come with three characters like kdn.exe. It utilizes a sort of highly aggressive method that you will find it hard to remove.

For example, anytime you launch particular original program, it launch itself under the name of Vista Home Security 2012, XP Internet Security 2012, Win 7 Security 2012, and other names it usually goes with. This rouge program tends to modify particular keys that every time you launch Firefox or Internet Explorer from the Start Menu, it will instead launch the rouge and display a fake firewall tells you the program is infected.

This brings you into a high risk, so you should be very careful or this rouge program will bring great loss to you.

 

 

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