PC Utilities Pro - Optimizer Pro
Posted: August 19, 2013
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 69 |
First Seen: | August 19, 2013 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro is a fake registry cleaner, which pretends to be a legitimate system repair and optimization program. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro attempts to trick target PC users into thinking that numerous systems issues have been detected on their computers. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro strives to persuade victims to buy a supposed full version of the rogue software product to allegedly repair imaginary registry errors and hard drive problems. When installed on the corrupted PC, PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro will be configured to start automatically every time Windows boots up. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro will then press the victim to scan the computer with bogus anti-malware scanners, which will then detect various security threats and system errors that PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro claims it cannot repair until the computer user purchase a falsified registry cleaner. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro will also display fraudulent pop-up alerts to notify the attacked PC user that the computer has been corrupted by various malware threats. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro cannot detect and remove any type of malware threats and registry errors. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro can only convince the victimized PC user to purchase the non-existent full version of PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro to remove the supposedly detected system issues. Do not believe any pop-up warning messages or reports displayed by PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro because all of them are deceitful. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro is a useless security application, which should never be used for detection of malware infections or repairing of so-called PC issues. PC Utilities Pro – Optimizer Pro has to be removed from the infected computer system with a legal anti-malware tool.
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