Personal Internet Security 2011

Personal Internet Security 2011 Description

As rogue security software, Personal Internet Security 2011 uses dishonest scanning results and error messages to alarm the user and indicate that registering the product is necessary. Personal Internet Security 2011 is also known to disable needed programs such as Windows Task Manager and various anti-malware scanners. All reports by Personal Internet Security 2011 are just shakedown attempts, so take this rogue security product to task and shove it off your hard drive without any hesitancy.

Personal Internet Security 2011 – An Unpleasant Present

The Russian-based Personal Internet Security 2011 first made widespread appearance on the web on the eve of 2011. Rather perversely, Personal Internet Security 2011 was marketed under the guise of being a good holiday gift! This rogue security product tries hard to appear benevolent, but Personal Internet Security 2011 is actually a rogue scanner that will harm your computer with a variety of different actions. Reasons to delete Personal Internet Security 2011 include:

Personal Internet Security 2011 will alter your settings to force popular browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer to use a proxy server. This will create hijacking events where you’re sent to a dangerous website while browsing. Personal Internet Security 2011 may even disable your ability to browse the web entirely in some cases.
Personal Internet Security 2011 will fill up your system with junk .dll, .exe, and .sys files, and then deliver error messages about these files being infections. Personal Internet Security 2011 will continue to do this as long as you refrain from removing Personal Internet Security 2011, causing needless usage of system resources.
Personal Internet Security 2011 will create registry entries that cause Personal Internet Security 2011 to load during system startup, even if you’d rather have Personal Internet Security 2011 closed.

Only forcibly closing the rogue anti-spyware program or preventing Personal Internet Security 2011 from starting at all can bypass this.
Unfortunately, actually closing Personal Internet Security 2011 can be difficult, since Personal Internet Security 2011 will disable Windows Task Manager and numerous kinds of popular anti-virus scanner products.

Here are some error messages that are recognizable as being linked to Personal Internet Security 2011:

System warning
No real-time malware, spyware and virus protection was
found. Click here to activate.

System alert
Personal Internet Security 2011 has detected potentially harmful software in
your system. It is strongly recommended that you register
Personal Internet Security 2011 to remove all found threats immediately.

ERROR MESSAGE:
Warning
Warning! Virus detected
Threat Detected: Trojan-Spy.HTML.Sunfraud.a

Warning
Warning! Virus detected

Warning! Identity theft attempt detected
Hidden connection IP: 128.154.26.11
Target: Microsoft Corporation keys

How to Fight Back

Despite its many hindrances, removing Personal Internet Security 2011 is far from impossible. Since Personal Internet Security 2011 has a strong resemblance to other known rogue anti-spyware products like Security Master Av and Internet Antivirus 2011, you can delete Personal Internet Security 2011 in roughly the same ways you would use against these other threats.

If you find it necessary to disable the pop-ups or Internet setting alterations of Personal Internet Security 2011 temporarily, entering the registration key code ‘U2FD-S2LA-H4KA-UEPB’ can be useful. However, Personal Internet Security 2011 will continue to be a danger to your system while Personal Internet Security 2011 is installed; don’t consider using the key to be an alternative to extinguishing this malware.

Personal Internet Security 2011 Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)

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Technical Details

Visual & GUI Characteristics

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

#	File Name	Detection Count
1	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ 36d966\ PI36d_290.exe	593
2	%UserProfile%\ Desktop\ eval_28146.exe	482
3	%AllUsersProfile%\[6 RANDOM CHARACTERS]\PI[RANDOM CHARACTERS]_[NUMBERS].exe	438
4	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ e189ed\ PIe18_302.exe	337
5	%AppData%\Personal Internet Security 2011	330
6	Personal Internet Security 2011.lnk	321
7	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ 3c0ca5\ PI3c0_2119.exe	176
8	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\[6 RANDOM CHARACTERS]\PI[RANDOM CHARACTERS]_[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe	155
9	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ 242510\ PersonalIS2011.exe	103
10	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ Application Data\ 67f352\ PI67f_2208.exe	44

More files

Registry Modifications

Tutorial: To edit and delete registry entries manually, read the tutorial on how to remove malicious registry entries.

Tip & Warning: Editing and removing the wrong registry keys can severely damage your PC, so remember to backup your Windows Registry! To optimize your Windows Registry and speed up your PC, download RegHunter's registry cleaner.