System Security 2009

System Security 2009 is the scam System Security with a fancy new 2009 tacked onto it.

Those scammers are creative geniuses.

System Security 2009 is designed to con you out of your money so it no idea how to protect your computer and was most likely put there by a Trojan. All System Security 2009 can do is generate popups as soon you you start up your computer so it can scare you into buying the “full” version of System Security 2009. The infections aren’t even on your computer so you don’t have to worry about removing them

You can try to remove System Security 2009 with these instructions.

Before you do that, Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items“, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make life a little easier.

Now click Start > Search, in “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.” Do a search for System Security 2009 and delete any folder using this name.

Popularity: 2% [?]

System Protector

System Protector is yet another fake security program that wants nothing more than to scam you out of your money.

System Protector has no idea on how to protect your computer and was most likely put there by a Trojan. All System Protector is designed to do is generate popups as soon you you start up your computer so it can scare you into buying the “full” version of System Protector. System Protector does this by saying you have various infections on your computer and if you cough up, it will remove them. The infections aren’t there which is what you would expect from a program that can’t even scan for them.

System Protector is known to generate the following popups:

System Protector. Your system security status is LOW! Please change your security settings.

System warning: Intercepting programs that may compromise your privacy and harm your sytem have been detected on your PC. Click here to remove them immediately with the latest version of System Protector.

System Protector – Threats detected. WARNING! 9 vulnerabilities found!!! Dangerous malware and viruses have been found during last scan. It is strongly recommended to remove all found threats fro your computer.

System Protector also hijacks your browser and takes you to a fake Google page:

Google has detected that you are using the unregistered copy of System Protector. System Protector is recommended by Google for the best Web surfer safety level. Register Now and get the max level secure browsing.

There are no detailed manual removal instructions for System Protector yet so just follow these instructions in the mean time.

Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items“, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make life a little easier. Now click Start > Search, in “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.” Do a search for SystemProtector and System Protector and delete any folder using this name.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Ultra Antivirus 2009

Ultra Antivirus 2009 (AKA UltraAntivir 2009) is just another ultra waste of your money fake antivirus program.

All Ultra Antivirus 2009 will do is give you ultra migraines with it’s is fake security alerts that will pop up every thirty seconds. The “threats” Ultra Antivirus 2009 finds aren’t even on your computer, it’s just a con to trick you into buying the “full” version of Ultra Antivirus 2009. You may have a Trojan on your computer that gave you Ultra Antivirus 2009 in the first place.

Ultra Antivirus 2009 has been reported to generate the following popups:

“Warning!Trojan Found!
Threat detected: Trojan
File name: kernel32.exe
Threat name: Trojan-PSW.Win32.Hooker
File at risk of infection: C:\Documents and Settings\…
Total Vulnerabilities: 2
Description: This is a password-stealing Trojan. When activated, it installs itself to the system, copies itself to the Windows or Windows system directory and registers itself in the system registry auto-run section.“

“System alert. Suspicious software, which may be malicious, has been detected on your PC. Click here to remove this threat immediately with Ultra Antivir2009.”

There are detailed manual removal instructions for Ultra Antivirus 2009 that you can follow.

Before you do this, Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items“, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make following give the Virus Alarm manual removal instructions easier. Also see if there is a folder in your “Program Files” called “Ultra Antivirus 2009 or Ultra Antivir 2009″. If it is there, delete it.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Privacy Center

Privacy Center is another fake security program that wants to con you out of your money.

Privacy Center will run a secuirty scan on your computer and tell you about all the nasty infections you have on there. What makes Privacy Center unique though is that is doesn’t really scan your hard drive, you are just looking at an animation. This means that all those infections Privacy Center “found” are completely bogus.

Still interested in buying the “full” version?

Remove-malware.net aren’t impressed with Privacy Center either so they have posted manual removal instructions for Privacy Center.

Before you start removing Privacy Center, Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items“, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make following give the Virus Alarm manual removal instructions easier. Also, see if there is a folder in your “Program Files” called “Privacy Center”. If it is there, delete it.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Virus Alarm

Virus Alarm is just another fake antivirus program that wants to scam you out of your money.

All Virus Alarm will give you is false alarms as it ties to scare with fake security alerts for threats than aren’t even on your computer to trick you into buying the full version.

There are manual removal instructions for Total Security Protection Center that you can follow.

Before you do this, Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items”, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make following give the Virus Alarm manual removal instructions easier. Also see if there is a folder in your “Program Files” called “Virus Alarm”. If it is there, delete it.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Windows XP Stopping Mainstream Support

Alot of websites are talking about Microsoft ending mainstream support for Windows XP on April 30th 2009.

What does this mean?

On April 14 2009 you will no longer be able to get free live support from Microsoft for Windows XP. How many of you use that? Microsoft will also only release security updates for Windows XP from April 14th as before they released both security updates and bug fixes. This is happening because Windows XP has been succeeded by Windows Vista and Microsoft wants to phase out it’s aging but still widely used operating system.

So what does this mean for those of us that still use Windows XP?

Nothing.

XP is not going to suddenly stop working after April 14 and it’s such a popular operating system that programs and drivers are still going to be written for it so you don’t have to worry about being left with an outdated computer.

You can safely use Windows XP until April 8 2014 when Microsoft retires it. That will be when you will need to look at a new computer or new operating system. In the mean time, continue to sit back and continue use Windows XP. I am.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Search And Destroy 2009

Search And Destroy 2009 is a fake antispyware program that is trying to con you out of your money.

Search And Destroy 2009 is trying to get you to confuse with with a legitimate program, Spybot: Search and Destroy. Although Spybot: Search and Destroy isn’t a very good anti-spyware program, at least it doesn’t bombard you with fake alerts for threats that aren’t even on your computer to try and trick you into buying the “full” version which is all you will see with Search And Destroy 2009.

Unfortunately, there are no manual removal instructions for Search And Destroy 2009 yet. One thing you can do is:

Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK

Uncheck “Load Startup Items“, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop Search And Destroy 2009’s annoying popups. Also see if there is a folder in your “Program Files” called “Search And Destroy 2009″. If it is there, delete it. This won’t completely remove the infection, only a good anti-spyware/antivirus program can do that at the moment.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 had a somewhat quiet release last week. Rather than post the news on the day, I held back so people would have a weekend to install and post any troubles they had. This usually accompanies a new program release and often makes it worth installing. Internet Explorer 8 is doing much better than Internet Explorer 7 did at the same stage of release so I think that it is safe to download.

If you use internet explorer 7 or under, Internet Explorer 8 is a very important update. It comes with some advanced security features that Firefox users have enjoyed since Firefox 3 was released last year. There is no reason for Firefox users to move to Internet Explorer 8 but it is a very important update for those of you who use Internet Explorer browser. Internet Explorer 8 is free and you can download it here.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Total Security Protection Center

Total Security Protection Center is yet another fake security program that wants to scam you out of your money.

It saddens me to say that Total Security Protection Center will not secure your computer against anything except your desktop which it will block out with it’s fake security alerts for non existent threats. This is to trick you into buying the full version.

PC Threat is reporting that Total Security Protection Center generates the following pop ups:

Total Security Protection Center

Security Notice!

To protect your computer, make sure the three security essentials are turned ON. If the settings are not ON, follow the recommendations. To return to the security senter later, open Control Panel.

Malicious sites block ON
Automatic Updates ON
Antivirus Protection NOT ACTIVE

Your version of TotalSecurity still not activated yet.
Click here to get Total Security License

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Spywarevoid.com have provided some manual removal instructions for Total Security Protection Center .

Before you do this, Click Start > Run: Type MSCONFIG, Click OK, Uncheck “Load Startup Items”, click OK and restart your computer when prompted. This should stop those annoying popups and make following give the Total Security Protection Center manual removal instructions easier. Also see if there is a folder in your “Program Files” called “Total Security Protection Center”. If it is there, delete it.

Popularity: 2% [?]

SmartEnhancer

SmartEnhancer is a browser plug in that speeds up your internet performance. Well that what SmartEnhancer says it does. In reality it just generates pop ups wanting you to buy the full version of SmartEnhancer. The full version of SmartEnhancer is even more useless the unpaid version. At least you were getting popups with before you paid for it. Now you just have paid for something to take up hard drive space and it will most likely still generate popups wanting you to buy the full version.

Use an anti-spyware program to get rid of SmartEnhancer and forget it ever existed.

Popularity: 2% [?]

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