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Support Tool 2011

Posted: December 16, 2010

Now days we see literally hundreds of new threats every month and today one of these new parasites, named Support Tool 2011, has been discovered to be a fake optimization program. These fake optimization programs, such as HDD Tools, utilize aggressive techniques to convince computer users that they must purchase the program in question to resolve detected issues. After it is installed Support Tool 2011 will display popup message after popup message in an attempt to convince you that new issues have been found on your computer. The major disappointment about this finding by Support Tool 2011 is that the threat or hard drive issues that it has detected are actually nonexistent.

You must understand that Support Tool 2011 was created by cybercrooks who have an objective to use money extortion techniques for a quick payday. Their payday basically comes down to you being swindled into paying for a full version of Support Tool 2011 where you think that doing so would resolve the issues that Support Tool 2011 supposedly detected. Unfortunately after purchasing Support Tool 2011 you will find out that it will not remove any type of malware or fix any optimization issues and then potentially end up giving your credit card used to purchase it to the hackers that created Support Tool 2011.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %Desktop%\Support Tool 2011.lnk
    2 %Programs%\Support Tool 2011
    3 %Programs%\Support Tool 2011\Support Tool 2011.lnk
    4 %Programs%\Support Tool 2011\Uninstall Support Tool 2011.lnk
    5 %TempDir%\dfrg
    6 %TempDir%\dfrgr
    7 %TempDir%\Windows Update.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"
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