Does Windows Protection Booster pop up on your computer without your permission? Is it a reliable security program? Watch out! This is a newly-released rogue program aiming to attack computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating system. This fake antispyware can display fake error message and trick users into paying a useless product. Don’t be fooled by that. Take measure to remove it as quickly as you can.
Windows Protection Booster is another scam generated from Rogue.FakeVimes family, doing the same malicious actions like other variants such as Windows AntiVirus Booster and Windows Ultimate Booster. Being as a rogue program, it is mainly created to trick victims into purchasing and downloading useless and potentially dangerous software, therefore it owns a very convincing appearance like other legitimate security suite. This program claims it can provide you a strong firewall to prevent all kinds of virus attacks, also gives you a deep or quick scan to look for viruses in your computer. However, the statement is not true because this program is lacking in legitimate anti-malware functionality and it is an actual danger to computer’s security. It contains no ability to remove viruses and protect you from malware or any of the other functions that it markets. All it can do on your computer is to keep showing you numerous fake reports and false positive, making you to hand over your money and buy its full version.
Published by on March 6, 2014 9:04 am and last modified on March 7, 2014 4:19 am.
Is KeepVid.com a virus or safe website? Is it actually virus free? Will it give you virus? Accidentally go it today and now I can only go to Google or Youtube!! How to remove KeepVid Redirect Pop Ups? How to get rid of it completely? Any effective way to help removing KeepVid virus would be appreciated!
KeepVid Redirect Pop Ups is a browser hijacker that would redirect your homepage and search engine or pop ups unwanted banners which has malicious intention with imitation of the mode of famous website to increase traffic profit or sell product. As we all know, the website mainly make profit by attracting advertiser or traffic. It needs to reach certain amount of traffic to reach the goal set by advertisement provider of fund investigator. On the other hand, advertising providers need to earn money from the ads on the site by clicking. Earning per click can share a certain amount of funds; the product can invade target position through the clicking when people accidentally click on the link in the Webpage it displays. After clicking, you’ll find out your home page has changed its homepage every time you turn on the browser. Whether you are using the bad browser, it just resets the browser settings and replaces the original home page without your permission.
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Published by on March 5, 2014 12:21 pm and last modified on March 6, 2014 2:51 pm.
I received a notification today saying that AVG had detected a threat on my computer. I ran a scan and the threat was detected as “Trojan horse downloader.generic.13.BVLU”. I believe the scan did not automatically remove the virus because this virus keeps coming back again and again. Is there any other way I can remove the virus completely? I’m extremely concerned as I know this type of virus is very dangerous. I would appreciate some advices!
Trojan horse downloader.generic.13.BVLU is a highly dangerous Trojan that is capable of downloading malicious files from a remote server, and then installing and executing the files. It is a generic detection used by AVG. This threat comes from Downloader Generic family as similar as Trojan horse Downloader.Generic13.BVUR virus found a few days ago. Both of these Trojan viruses can install itself to the system and wait until an Internet connection becomes available to connect to a remote server or website in order to download additional programs (usually malware) onto the infected computer.
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Published by on March 5, 2014 3:42 am and last modified on April 3, 2014 6:43 am.
Antivirus program detects an infection called LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj]? It makes you mad and you do not know how to get rid of it? It is a dangerous Trojan virus. You can use the antivirus program to do a full scan, but the virus is still in your computer? If your antivirus program cannot delete it, you should remove it manually as soon as possible. Otherwise the consequences may be unbearable.
LNK:FakeFolder-B [Trj] is a stubborn Trojan virus which has the ability to damage the target computer seriously. Most of the victims do not know the virus lands in the computer successfully until the antivirus program pops up a warning about it. In general, it comes with some corrupted programs on the Internet. When computer users download unknown free programs from the Internet, it will be downloaded to the computer together. The spread channel of the Trojan includes hiding in junk e-mail attachments as well as unsafe websites. Therefore, in order to protect your computer, you must be very careful when you use the Internet.
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Published by on March 5, 2014 3:04 am
Adsupplyads.com redirect virus, as a malicious popping up redirect virus, it usually targets on the Internet Explorer browser and makes chaos. Cyber criminals use this browser hijack redirect virus to collect information from the infected computer, once it has been installed to one PC, it will be able to modify key settings on the infected browser and even the whole computer. The adsupplyads.com pops up immediately when infected Internet Explorer browser is running, this redirect virus is extremely dangerous which needs to be removed completely. Read the rest of this post »
Published by on March 4, 2014 9:48 am and last modified on March 4, 2014 9:57 am.
Adware.GoonSquad!gen1 in your computer and you don’t know how to get rid of it? I wanted to remove it as this unwanted software has been slowing my pc down for the past couple of months. I want my computer back running as fast as before. How can I remove it?
Adware.GoonSquad!gen1 is reported as a stubborn adware by Symantec recently. It is a kind of unwanted program that has the right to use the normal way to enter the login system (also known as the specified program that can get the system security certification) and would plan to bring in backdoor malware or plan a a secret visit to a computer system with access program bundle with nasty viruses. If your computer is infected by one of the nasty virus it brings, there is no security software can hit it or delete it. It will not only damage the system registry and computer hardware components, but also will reveal your private information saved on your computer. This adware may not be detected by firewall program because it is not a big threat, but the other viruses it may bring are huge disaster.
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Published by on March 4, 2014 5:36 am
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Lyckriks.cv is composed of a bunch of malicious codes and has the ability to mutate constantly, therefore, antivirus programs can detect this threat but always cannot delete it. You try to use a variety of removal tools but still fail to get rid of it and also make your computer in a mess finally? Do you know something about it? We should have a better understanding of this malicious thing before we take actions to remove it.
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Lyckriks.cv is a dangerous threat that has attacked many computers all over the world so far. It is build by those tricky but clever cyber criminals with advanced computer technology. Therefore, it is able to avoid a variety of antivirus programs. It is usually connected to junk e-mail attachments and malicious websites. Also, when you download some free software from an unknown resource, it is likely to have access to your computer. You may not know it is in the computer until you see a warning from the antivirus.
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Published by on March 4, 2014 4:03 am
Websearch.exitingsearch.info took over my Firefox. I suffered from this browser hijacker when I was opening an unknown email attachment. The hijacker infection made great chaos on the computer, which made me freaked out. Why can’t my antivirus pick up this browser hijacker? How to get rid of the nasty hijacker infection? If you have tried in vain, please follow removal steps below to save your computer.
Websearch.exitingsearch.info is a harmful browser hijacker that has triggered destructive damages to worldwide computers. It is a fake search engine supposedly helps net users enjoy web browsing and searching activities. Actually, it pretends to offer users functions to search for favorite key words and visit various online recourses. However, this bogus website is nothing licensed but a risky computer infection which must be deleted from the computer promptly. The hijacker infection adds to your Internet browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox etc. Soon as the hijacker affects the computer, it changes your homepage, search engine and other default settings. While being modified, users will come across difficulties during their visits to Facebook, Twitter and yahoo mail and so on. Also, this computer infection is so invasive that it may take use of the system loopholes to install some unwanted extensions, toolbar and plug-ins in the computer without any permission. It may obtain tricky tactics to enable remote hackers to steal vital information from unwary users aggressively. Urgent as the situation is, PC users should take actions to get rid of the nasty browser hijacker completely and immediately.
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Published by on March 4, 2014 3:29 am
Today many people complain that they keep receiving security warning telling that a virus is found in C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe and they cannot find a way to get rid of it as the virus can keep coming back after removal. With a list of svchost process in task manger, how can we separate the infected one with another and remove virus completely? Learn more details from the post below.
Svchost.exe is the core process of an operating system, not the virus process. But it is easy to be a target of invasion because of the special nature of this process. The virus will make every attempt to complete its invasion to Svchost.exe. the cause of Svchost problem can be more than one reason. In some cases is the emergence of a systemic problem led by the system; or the possibility of damaging of Updating function problems; the reason also can be caused by a virus, which is the most dangerous reason of all. In general, we can confirm if the problem is causing by virus or other reason by seeing the execution paths of Svchost.exe process. A lot of friends who are less well understood on Svchost.exe problem might be scared when see more than one Svchost process occasionally appear in the task manager because they might would have an impression that their computer is infected with viruses or at least their computer has virus hidden in which makes them confuse about the processes in task manager and don’t know what to confirm the status of their computer.
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Published by on March 3, 2014 1:23 pm
My one year old Dell computer is infected by Win32/Huer while opening an unknown process accidentally on the USB stick. Avast anti-virus program warns me the virus infection but can not remove it, each time when I restart the infected computer, this virus process will be detected once more. How can I remove this virus process completely from my computer? Should I try another more advanced anti-virus program or manual removal? Please help.
Win32/Huer virus is a new dangerous virus process which can be detected by the security tools, this virus process can attack all the Windows OS computer, usually the virus process will be attached to some programs, adware and unsafe processes, once PC users open these infected files on the computer, Win32/Huer virus will be installed automatically without PC user’s permission, and that is why the PC user don’t know the virus infection until their anti-virus programs notice them. Win32/Huer virus process can cause terrible virus infection on the infected PC, key items and registry can be modified, it needs to be removed completely before this virus causes further damage.
Published by on March 3, 2014 5:41 am
