Archive for December, 2011
Get rid of Strathclyde Police trojan to spare GBP 100 and unlock PC
Strathclyde Police scam is yet another edition of Metropolitan Police misleading alert powered by virus. This time it claims £ 100 as a fine for illegal activities such as storing video containing forbidden violence and child pornography. UK Police is aware of the scam and endeavors to detect the source of it to root out [...]
Remove Ping.exe upon ensuring the name misuse
Ping.exe has long since known to be one of Windows system files. This fact underpins a number of plain scams as rascals attempt to reduce the risk of their trickery disclosure by means of assigning name of common knowledge system file to malicious objects. Removal of Ping.exe is important, but no less significance is attached [...]
Removal of Security Monitor 2012 misleading software and fake security popups
Security Monitor 2012 displays menu shyly decorated with shield and Windows logo, which reminds Microsoft users something familiar. Further on, it displays alerts in windows that look like those produced by computer system (fake Security Center alert), but this time they encourage the purchase of software in question. Both the shield and the alerts’ frame [...]
Remove Win32/Sirefef.DA, variable payload elimination and prevention
Win32/Sirefef.DA belongs to rapidly growing group of infections. The root name for the family it represents is Sirefef. The family members have been observed to set up complex schemes serving at different points fake system utilities introduction into computer systems, keylogging affairs, botnets development. There are might be multiple instances of the trojan at a [...]
Remove Trojan:Win64/Sirefef.C, patch security breaches
Trojan:Win64/Sirefef.C is a trojan-dropper installed by similar infection, another trojan-dropper, Trojan:Win64/Sirefef.J. A sequence of obscure download actions is peculiarity of Sirefef malware. On the face of it, repeated downloads of infections increase the risk of their detection by system security facilities in the course of transferring into targeted machine. In the wild, however, the smaller [...]
Remove Windows 7 Security 2012 virus
Windows 7 Security 2012 is a master of impersonation. It detects viruses without a single action of examining memory entries against description of threats, nor does it apply any behavioral and alternate routines aimed at prosecuting viruses. Therefore it is a fake antivirus that skillfully tricks its users. When it comes to the things the [...]
