Windows Custom Safety

The FakeVimes scamware train has shown no signs of slowing down with its latest offering to the masses, Windows Custom Safety. This rogue anti-malware scanner may pretend to keep phishing attacks, rootkits, spyware and other threats away from your hard drive, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have verified Windows Custom Safety's inability to do any of the aforementioned defensive acts. Instead of giving your computer an increase in safety, Windows Custom Safety will institute a lock down against your PC's real security software, redirect your browser to hostile sites and display fake explanations for these attacks that include the names of practically every PC threat imaginable – except itself. Once it's identified, deleting Windows Custom Safety should occupy the top slot on your schedule, although you may also need to disable Windows Custom Safety with any of the methods below to access appropriate anti-malware programs.

How Windows Custom Safety Customizes Your Safety in Perverse Ways

Windows Custom Safety is marketed in the form of a multi-featured security and anti-malware product, but its software actually is focused on the opposite aim: of making your computer unsafe, feeding you false security information and blocking anything that could thwart these attacks. These are traits that Windows Custom Safety shares with other variants of FakeVimes such as Privacy Guard Pro, PrivacyGuard Pro 2.0, Extra Antivirus, Fast Antivirus 2009, Presto TuneUp, Windows Security Suite, Smart Virus Eliminator, Packed.Generic.245, Volcano Security Suite, Windows Enterprise Suite, Enterprise Suite, Additional Guard, Live PC Care, PC Live Guard, Live Enterprise Suite, Security Antivirus, My Security Wall, CleanUp Antivirus and Smart Security. While Windows Custom Safety launches with Windows and is easily identified, its attacks are not always as out-in-the-open, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have noted common Windows Custom Safety symptoms as shown below:

• Search engine redirects to malicious sites.
• Blocked PC security websites that are replaced by fraudulent error pages.
• Pop-up alerts that warn you about the presence of attacks or harmful programs that actually aren't present in the first place (such as identity theft or unrelated rootkits).
• Fake system scans that Windows Custom Safety uses to continue its illusion of your PC being attacked by unrealistically large amounts of varied PC threats.
• Anti-malware and security programs that Windows Custom Safety blocks with inaccurate warning messages – typically about supposed infections that have latched onto these programs. Blocked software can extend to basic Windows utilities like Task Manager.

Getting Windows Back to Normal without Windows Custom Safety's Shifty Assistance

Windows Custom Safety, like all modern members of the FakeVimes family of rogue anti-malware programs, has been confirmed to make modifications to Windows file during its infection process. These changes may allow your PC to be continued to be attacked by browser redirects and other issues even after Windows Custom Safety is deleted, if you fail to remove all of Windows Custom Safety's alterations. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers suggest using a reputable brand of anti-malware equipment to scan your complete PC for all traces of Windows Custom Safety and remove them in an automated fashion, since manual removal is hazardous for non-experts in PC security.

Since PC threats from Windows Custom Safety's family may also be installed by other forms of hostile software, such as Trojan droppers, SpywareRemove.com malware research team also recommends that you use thorough system scanning features that can detect related PC threats, in addition to Windows Custom Safety. Updating your anti-malware software prior to trying to delete Windows Custom Safety is also encouraged since Windows Custom Safety is a recent derivative of its family.

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