VirusCatch (aka Virus Catch) is a bogus antispyware solution that scares people into buying its license. This sort of practice is well known for us – it’s the way rogue antivirus programs tend to trick users and rip them off. VirusCatch usually intrudes without user notification; this method is known as backdoor penetration. It means [...]
Avexpertsoft.com is a misleading site. It gets worse if you encounter the same-named hijacker. In that case, your browser will get redirected to Avexpertsoft.microsoft.com – a fake Internet Explorer alert page. This redirect problem can be triggered by trojan horses that invade your web surfing space. The change the browser settings e.g. the default home [...]
TrustDoctor is scam software one should avoid. Judging from its basic traits, TrustDoctor is apparently a continuation of the infamous Wini family of rogue antivirus tools. It literally trespasses on you by penetrating into your computer without your knowledge. TrustDoctor usually uses trojan viruses for that. Those little fragments of malicious code find some small [...]
My Security Engine is a badware application that tends to display fabricated security alerts and bogus malware scanners in order to trick people. My Security Engine is a clone of CleanUp Antivirus – another rogue antispyware program whose GUI and behavior have been borrowed by this brand-new specimen. My Security Engine usually infiltrates one’s computer [...]
DefenderSoftPremium.net is a deceitful site the mission of which is to add some persuasiveness to the misleading routine of rogue antispyware distribution. DefenderSoftPremium.net has to do with Antispyware Soft – a fake security program that roves on the Internet seeking some victims for deployment of its commercial objectives. DefenderSoftPremium.net is also known as DefenderSoftPremium.microsoft.com – [...]
Software-Defender.net is listed among insecure domains, and there is a very relevant reason for that. It is supporting the malvertising endeavors of Antispyware Soft rogue security application. The scareware program redirects its victim’s web surfing to Software-Defender.net if you click on a random bogus pop-up it generates. A tricky thing about this hijacker is that [...]
Software Protector (or SW Protector) is a malicious program that brings computer disruption and possible privacy infringement into one’s cyber activities. You will tell Software Protector by the multiple alerts (fake ones) that literally take over the rest of the processing you are running. These ads, coupled with some scanners, will claim that Software Protector [...]
