Threat Description:
PC-Inspector.net (or PC-Inspector.microsoft.com) is an impersonation of one of Antivirus Soft rogue anti-spyware’s intricacies aiming to arrive at its pre-determined malignant milestones. PC-Inspector.net is target web page Antivirus Soft redirects its victims to. It is associated with fraudulent payment (billing) system so it is completely fit to maintain the commercial aspect of Antivirus Soft scareware campaign. If Antivirus Soft scareware happens to inject your system, it makes your web-surfing impossible as it jacks up your browser and replaces every site you want to hit with PC-Inspector.microsoft.com which is an improvised IE warning page. This is done through some manipulations with your system settings that have to do with network connections. The virus distorts Windows HOSTS file and thus makes you hit PC-Inspector.microsoft.com at random. In order to prevent this from taking place, you need to disable and completely neutralize Antivirus Soft rogueware which is taking over your workstation to eventually ruin it unless you pay some money for its license unknowingly supporting the international hacking endeavors.
Threat Description:
Antivirus Soft demo is a malware name associated with one of the most rapidly evolving rogue security products in the wild as of now. It is pretty much the same thing as Antivirus Soft, it only manifests itself as the ‘Demo’ version when trying to encourage people into registering the licensed copy. Antivirus Soft demo usually enters one’s computer with trojans that may come from basically any Internet sources if you click something you shouldn’t have clicked. The trespassing process is not perceptible for your eye and sometimes even bypasses virus defense you are using. Things with your PC get worse as Antivirus Soft demo starts to cause Registry changes and drops insecure damaging files. It will start bombarding you with fake scanners, false pop-ups and other types of notifications. You will not be able to execute any process because Antivirus Soft demo will overrule it notifying you that the process is infected. Besides, Antivirus Soft demo will redirect your web browser to pages that contain misleading warning inscriptions.
Threat Description:
There can be no positive feedback about Pc-carelive.com for the simple reason that it is a browser hijacker distributing malignant software. Pc-carelive.com has to do with Windows Defender 2010 or any of its kin fake anti-spyware programs. When this scareware hits your workstation without your consent, it issues many fake alerts and counterfeit malware interception reports. All of these ads suggest you to register your copy of the ‘security’ software, and it’s precisely when you click such prompts that you get rerouted to Pc-carelive.com. When on that site, all you see is some recommendations to purchase Windows Defender 2010 whose commercial version comes in several variations depending on how long the license should act. So as you see, Pc-carelive.com appears to be redirected to; and when it’s done, it attempts to swindle you into buying software you don’t need at all. Moreover, the application being promoted through Pc-carelive.com is not safe to have installed on one’s machine.
Threat Description:
MyComGuard (alias Mycom Guard) has been added to the vast list of potentially dangerous programs to avoid. It comes into a system with trojans that do know how to find paths inside without notifying the user. MyComGuard has Korean interface (which is actually ok) but it definitely does not act like a regular antivirus tool although it is marketed as such. It uploads its files to your system directory and adds a registry key that makes your OS run the executable MyComGuard.exe every time you boot up your PC. This rogue anti-spyware will load your computer’s processing activity with its imposed scanners which run after you launch Windows and subsequently during your PC use. These scanners are false and report some imaginary results that are by no means to be taken for granted. MyComGuard will also repeatedly display its spoof popup alerts that give you an additional impression that you have a badly malware-stricken workstation that can’t possibly do without its ‘professional’ antivirus assistance.
Threat Description:
It’s pretty hard to give a confident unambiguous answer to the question what Backdoor.POISON.BQA is and whether it actually exists as a standalone infection. This scary-sounding trojan is currently one of the instruments with the help of which Antivirus 7 scareware’s licensed version is being promoted. We know this might sound kinda confusing so let us provide some details on this point. If you have a look at the screenshot below this article, you will see that Backdoor.POISON.BQA is described as a computer threat that (citation) “arrives as attachment to email messages spammed by another malware or malicious user” in an attempt to control your PC. The truth can be acknowledged by realizing that the above description of Backdoor.POISON.BQA is being shown on fabricated security alerts called ‘Resident Shield: New virus detected’ generated by Antivirus 7 rogue anti-spyware we have mentioned. This automatically makes Backdoor.POISON.BQA nothing but a figurant of the filthy malvertising scheme meant to push the scareware application under consideration.
Threat Description:
5win-wellcome.com is what we classify as a browser hijacker, i.e. a domain name people hit after their browsers get directed there because of trojan activity. 5win-wellcome.com is promoting the recent scareware called Antivirus 7 which is showing huge rapidity of propagation during the past few days. PC users visit 5win-wellcome.com resulting from a click on a purportedly safe SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) link or an online advertisement placed by hackers on popular web resources such as social networking portals. You all of a sudden realize you’ve navigated to a web page that right away displays a popup warning telling you that Antivirus 7 has found some unsafe software on your computer. That is just the beginning though. 5win-wellcome.com will then get down to ‘scanning’ your system for malware. This improvised scan is a bogus one and does not reflect any security information you can trust. It’s just picture that was ‘drawn’ by the bad guys beforehand for you to fall for it and think it’s checking your machine online for real.
Threat Description:
Win-live-care2010.com is a new part of the hideous mechanism pursuing the objective of promoting rogue security software. Win-live-care2010.com is pushing Windows Defender 2010 crimeware whcih is a general name for a group of insecure applications exploiting the same common malcode (e.g. XP Guardian or XP Antivirus Pro 2010). If one of the above-mentioned unsafe programs penetrates into your system, it will generate deceptive scanners and popup ads that erroneously report many infections and recommend you to get this whole thing fixed. It’s then that you get rerouted to Win-live-care2010.com without your consent. When on Win-live-care2010.com, you can either exit it or do what it prompts. The former option (i.e. navigating away) will prove to be merely a temporary relief because the still hijacked browser will exhibit the same activity over and over. So you will get one principal choice: to purchase Windows Defender 2010 or one of its clone rogue anti-spywares; or get rid of Win-live-care2010.com hijacker.
Threat Description:
Onecare-antivirus2010.com is entirely devoted to distributing malicious software. The site we have indicated is a browser hijacker of Windows Defender 2010 – a rogue anti-spyware product that has been ’successfully’ invading its own malicious niche in the world of scareware applications. You probably won’t run into Onecare-antivirus2010.com unless your PC gets struck by Windows Defender 2010 or any of its clone applications (there are around 10 of them on the whole). The crimeware tends to jack up the web browser on the machine it hits. This will be a reason for browser rerouting that takes place forcibly. In other words, when you try to launch your web browser you will be re-navigated to Onecare-antivirus2010.com which insists that you need to register some software you definitely do not need. This sort of activity is common with rogueware applications and targets new sales of the fraudulent licenses.
Threat Description:
Hourbrand.com is a web page designed to intimidate computer users into buying rogue anti-spyware, Virus Protector being the sponsoring scareware. Hourbrand.com looks as if it were some legit online scanner but it’s critical to know that it’s not genuine. One more essential thing to keep in mind is that if you are getting redirected to Hourbrand.com it means you have a trojan virus on your computer which is actually calling forth this annoying browser activity. Also, the web page being described in this article contains malicious scripts which, if passed over to your system, may cause some additional unwanted symptoms. Hourbrand.com tries to persuade you that it’s scanning your computer for malware and other security issues. No wonder it reports many detected items when through. The plan of Hourbrand.com hijacker pre-supposes the presence if a malignant downloader in its structure.
Threat Description:
Browsersecurecheck.com is a browser hijack originator providing online promotion to the new nasty rogue spyware remover called Antivirus 7. Browsersecurecheck.com is visited in only one case: if your system gets hijacked by a trojan horse. The trojan virus could have infiltrated your PC unnoticeably and has done some browser functioning distortion job. So, with this threat on your workstation, you won’t be able to visit sites because each time you try to you’ll end up on Browsersecurecheck.com/block.php page which reads “Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!”. There are two options provided there (please see below): Continue Unprotected and Get security software, the former being inactive. So as you must have figured by now, the only option is the latter one. If you click it though, you will get rerouted to one of the 2 possible payment pages supporting Antivirus 7 scam. Each of them will recommend you to become the ‘happy owner’ of Antivirus 7 software and even provide a discount of $33.30.