Rogue antispyware is a popular and widespread type of computer fraud. Windows AntiHazard Center is a typical sample of such sort of rubbish. This malware installs on a computer without any permission or user consent and attacks the whole system in no time. What does it look like? In fact, quite usual, even a bit simple. Counterfeit antispyware is a fragment of malcode that may take advantage of exploits in the targeted OS or software vulnerabilities to penetrates therein. Your machine could as well get infected by you visiting compromised sites and through incidental downloads. The distinctive feature of Windows AntiHazard Center is that it occupies your machine. This program issues fake scanners and popup ads which report phony viruses or false system problems, this being followed by some claims to scour your computer. The scan reports could frighten the victim and convince him / her to buy the licenced commercial version. This is how the Internet thieves make money. But what might this fraudware do to a compromised PC? The answer is – pretty much anything its creators like. Windows AntiHazard Center might as well disable your legitimate antivirus, substitute important (required for proper work of Windows) files with junk ones and block the Task Manager. Such programs aren’t provided with Uninstall option, so the only way to eliminate the rogue from your machine is either powerful and up-to-date genuine antispyware or re-installation of the operating system you use. Anyway, do beware of such threats. This is our advice to those who care about their PCs. Keep your web browsing safeguarded by specialized software and never trust dubious webpages, links or adverts promising you anything fantastic. Best of luck!

Not only does Windows Process Director program act on your nerves, it’s as well a perfectly tangible potential risk to the integrity and safety of your operating system. Anyway, we’re sure you have already figured that if you got this nasty software on your computer. Windows Process Director is not typically installed by a user, which makes the first real difference of this utility as compared to real security tools out there. Another drastic distinguishing feature is the way it acts after penetrating into one’s workstation: the app corrupts Windows registry, which might not appear considerable in terms of the quantitative changes, i.e. there may not be many registry entries added, but the ones created suffice for the PC to act up. This program therefore gets configured to start running as a high-priority executable, so it will be overriding your other processes all the way into OS sessions. When launched and operating, Windows Process Director triggers counterfeit scans displaying results that are just as bogus. Along with the scanners, the rogue reports some additional security issues through misleading pop-ups. These positives are supposed to scare the victim and attain the primary objective being pursued by this disgusting application. It tells the user to pay the fee for its license, concurrently promising you to help remove the supposed infections it had been telling you about. It’s hence obvious that your judicious options here are restricted to uninstalling this scareware and guarding your machine from any additional bad modules it might have installed. Before getting down to removal, please bring up your Task Manager and stop the process named Protector-{random 3 characters}.exe – you shouldn’t have particular problems finding that one. This being done, use the tips listed in the tutorial below to completely eliminate this threat.

Windows Guardian Angel is a piece of malicious software that could be easily caught from compromised websites via malign scipts. It looks just like the usual security solution and has the working principle employed in genuine antivirus products. It penetrates into your PC, disables the legitimate security system and obtains control over your PC. Such fake antiviruses could be installed without your permission and awareness. Once inside, it immediately starts messing things up by imitating a scan of your operating system, and seems to find numerous threats and viruses. The average user could be scared and perplexed by these misleading scan results, so (s)he is likely to end up buying the licensed version of the counterfeit anti-spyware in order to cure the infected computer. And that is the main aim of the Internet scammers. As to the associated functions of this fraudware, there’s a large number of them. Let’s have a look at the main risks. After such program intrudes on your computer it could create new registry values in order to configure the system to run this rogue while Windows runs – moreover, it generally does that. Furthermore, such program is very hard to reveal, as there is no information about it in the Control Panel. You won’t be able to delete it either, as it has no Uninstall option. As you might have understood, this scareware tends to be dangerous. So what can you do to protect your own PC? The only one thing we can recommend you do is have your computer permanently scanned by antivirus modules of a trustworthy security system. And remember not to follow links or click on ads on web pages you know nothing about, as it may cause virus contamination of your OS and serious problems with your workstation on the whole.

If it gets to comparing all the Internet threats, this one must be on top of the classification. We’re talking about Windows Health Keeper. The reasons why it is so dangerous are its functionality and the fact that it is well-spread over the Net. You can easily `catch’ such fake anti-spyware almost everywhere: from popular social networks, by clicking on different adverts, pop-ups, or simply by surfing through the web. After such malicious software is downloaded, your PC becomes infested and exposed to viruses and other Internet junk. How does this happen? The rogue anti-spyware creates new files on your computer and modifies the Registry by adding some entries in there, which changes the way your system works. Such software can literally turn your antivirus off, block the Task Manager, deteriorate the system performance on the whole and even go as far as to steal your usernames, passwords and other private credentials. And this information is very ‘helpful’ for internet scammers who earn a living due to malware like this. Anyway, Windows Health Keeper is a hostile program which is difficult to detect. It is not listed on `Add / Remove Programs` and there’s no Uninstall file or option, so we sincerely wish you to never fall victim to such fraudware. The Windows Health Keeper looks just like the ordinary legitimate security software. At first sight, it performs quite regular functions – its antivirus module regularly scans the whole operating system, seems to get the latest updates, appears to detect multiple threats and reports false scan results. After that, the rogue program may recommend that you purchase the commercial (also called full) version of it. In fact, this would give you nothing, except loss of money. Well, you’d better think first, isn’t it strange that an uninvited program needs your expenditures to cure the contaminated PC? So, to conclude we can give you only one advice – be careful and attentive while browsing through the Internet. With regard to Windows Health Keeper, do your PC a favor – get rid of it immediately.

The international cyber scammers have been indulging in some really intricate activity since of late which involves system hijack and extortion. This fraud pattern is all about false-warning the victims on the allegedly illicit actions they performed using their PCs – look at the screenshot of the bogus “Canadian Security Intelligence Service” alert to get a better idea of what this thing looks like, or review our earlier post on Strathclyde Police Ukash hoax. Those are typically some statements about you visiting forbidden porn sites and similar destinations, which is to be prosecuted. There are different schemes with regard to different countries, but there is one thing they all have in common – it’s the Ukash aspect. The criminals try to make you pay sort of a ransom to get the system unlocked, and this fee is to be processed through Ukash payment system. This is why lots of users who fell victim to these bad endeavors of the hackers tend to associate this problem with an entity they call Ukash virus. Anyway, one of the major things to keep in mind is those police alerts are counterfeit and you never really did anything illegal, so do not pay the bad guys. There is a way to bypass this issue, which is to remove the infection that causes these things. So read our tutorial on Ukash virus removal carefully and stick to it. Just a quick note – you might need to first boot into Safe Mode before getting down to the malware elimination.

Shield Protector 2012 is a piece of really nasty malicious software that literally invades computers and tries to force users into doing the things that are beneficial to its mean creators and villain inspirers. As a matter of fact, this program is a rogue antispyware, so its main and direct mission is to mislead its preys by claiming to detect computer infections that are false and imaginary. This sort of scare tactic is intended to drive people into the trap of thinking there’s an urgent need for purchasing Shield Protector 2012, otherwise the PC will supposedly go down the drain. As you can see, that’s all meant to make you waste some money which equals the cost of the product’s licensed version. However, all this commercial copy does is imitating some virus removal. Do you feel like getting rid of non-existent threats in exchange for some money? You’d better remove the real malware instead, that is, eliminate Shield Protector 2012 pest.

Windows Personal Detective has a plain zero value when it comes to detecting or removing malicious software – moreover, it’s more of a virus itself. Its origin, behavior and goals speak for themselves too – the program is rogue by all means. Consequently, you shouldn’t expect any genuine guard from this tool as it was made for the purpose of tricking its victims into wasting their time and money. This scareware does everything in accordance with a predetermined plan: ‘silent’ intrusion, changes to the infested system, fake scanners / ads, and finally the suggestions for you to make a payment. Windows Personal Detective reports infections that do not even exist, and does that so obsessively that it’s really hard to ignore all those false positives. Actually, the badware seems to offer you a deal: you pay, and it cleans up your computer. But that’s just an illusion because all it ‘removes’ is imaginary viruses. So there’s but one option you got, which is to get rid of this rogue antispyware for good, and do it as soon as you can.