PC MightyMax

PC MightyMax Description

PC MightyMax is a fake anti-malware program from the WinFixer family, a widely-recognized group of scamware-based PC threats that are distributed by fraudulent websites like PCMightyMax.net. While PC MightyMax makes the claim that its scans are free, all of PC MightyMax’s ‘free’ scans will list inaccurate threat alerts as a prelude to a request for paid registration. The paid version of PC MightyMax may look as though PC MightyMax can remove all PC threats, but SpywareRemove.com malware analysts note that this is because PC MightyMax never detects any real infection in the first place. Visiting sites that promote any form of WinFixer, including PC MightyMax, should be avoided, and PC MightyMax’s deletion should be handled by anti-malware programs with a good track record of combating scamware.

PC MightyMax – a New Brand for a PC Threat That’s Been Around the Block

Even though PC MightyMax’s websites promotes PC MightyMax as a seemingly independent and reputable anti-malware product, PC MightyMax is easily detected as a clone of other members of the WinFixer family. PC MightyMax’s relatives include equally-fraudulent scamware like Your PC Protector, DriveCleaner, PCTurboPro, Performance Optimizer, ErrorSafe, WinAntiSpyware and WinSpywareProtect. In spite of being a ‘free’ product, PC MightyMax is only capable of detecting fake PC threats and hard drive errors in its unpurchased version, whereas its purchased version will fail to detect any of these imaginary problems. As a simple scam that’s typical to rogue security programs, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts always encourage you to remove PC MightyMax with the same anti-malware software that you’d use for exterminating any other type of PC threat.

Standard PC MightyMax infections occur through malicious sites that promote PC MightyMax as a supposedly genuine anti-malware program. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend total avoidance of sites that promote other variants of WinFixer. PC MightyMax may also be distributed in Trojan droppers that are promoted as fake codec updates such as Emcodec.E.

How to Turn PC MightyMax into a Weakling

SpywareRemove.com malware research team has verified that PC MightyMax can infect most versions of Windows. However, other operating systems should be safe from PC MightyMax and similar WinFixer-based PC threats, although this doesn’t indicate a similar immunity to all types of rogue security programs. Although PC MightyMax, like some variants of WinFixer, may offer an uninstall tool, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers discourage any usage of this utility in favor of deleting all of PC MightyMax’s components with anti-malware software.

Most PC security companies have had a definition for WinFixer for years. However, as a new variant of WinFixer, PC MightyMax may be difficult to remove without updated threat databases. Other complications that SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have also noted in PC MightyMax infections include the presence of Vundo Trojans and negative alterations to certain types of web browsers (Internet Explorer and Firefox).

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PC MightyMax Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

• The following newly produced Registry Values are:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}pcmm.exePCMM2007RTPCMMRealtime
• The following CLSID's were detected:
  HKEY..\..\{CLSID Path} {94D5AF0F-E6EE-4A75-BE31-9C9C9A87AD45}

Additional Information

• The following cookies were detected:
  pcmightymax

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