24/7 PC Guard

Posted: May 13, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	10/10
Infected PCs:	16

First Seen:	May 13, 2013
Last Seen:	August 17, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

24/7 PC Guard is built to resemble an anti-malware scanner and general security product, but lacks all of the actual anti-malware features that you would expect to receive from any such software. As compensation for this deficiency, 24/7 PC Guard pretends to detect a range of different PC threats on your computer. However, it does so even if your PC isn't suffering from any kind of malware infections (other than 24/7 PC Guard). Since 24/7 PC Guard isn't worth your money or time to register, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend the same reaction to 24/7 PC Guard that would be used against any similar scamware: deleting 24/7 PC Guard with a real anti-malware program after you've taken any measures needed to disable any active malicious software.

24/7 PC Guard: Providing Bad Intel Every Hour of the Day

While unrelated to prominent scamware families like FakeRean, Winwebsec or FakePAV, 24/7 PC Guard still displays the hallmark characteristics of such traditional types of fake anti-malware scanners. 24/7 PC Guard can't detect real malware or attacks against your computer, but, nonetheless, is capable of creating fake system scans (particularly registry-based simulations) that appear to detect large amounts of various PC threats. However, 24/7 PC Guard does this without any real attempts to identify the presence of any malware that may or may not be present.

SpywareRemove.com malware experts note that 24/7 PC Guard, so far, hasn't been seen to have any self-distributing qualities, such as the ability to spread through removable devices, networks or spam. However, 24/7 PC Guard may be distributed and installed by other PC threats that are designed for this purpose, such as various flavors of backdoor trojans, worms, trojan droppers and website-hosted browser exploits like the notorious Blacole. For the safety of your computer, you always should assume that any visible 24/7 PC Guard infection may be supported by related PC threats.

Taking Your Computer Out of 24/7 PC Guard's Watch

In their attempts to force you to spend money on 24/7 PC Guard's fake security features, 24/7 PC Guard and some associated PC threats may take actions towards blocking other programs. If your real security and anti-malware programs are, as a result, unable to be launched and used to remove 24/7 PC Guard, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend your using time-tested safety protocols like restarting Windows in Safe Mode, booting a separate operating system from a flash drive or even using a dual-boot setup to restart your PC. Any of these methods will offer means of disabling most kinds of malicious software that use various auto-start exploits to launch themselves without your consent.

Since any 24/7 PC Guard has a significant chance of including other kinds of malicious software that may not show symptoms, SpywareRemove.com malware experts don't suggest trying to remove 24/7 PC Guard by itself or without appropriate software. In-depth anti-malware scans that canvass your entire PC should be used as the default solution to any obvious 24/7 PC Guard infection.

Technical Details

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:

Scanner.Core.dll

File name: Scanner.Core.dll
Size: 46.59 KB (46592 bytes)
MD5: d53aac0acb79d1437ed2a67f5f727af4
Detection count: 55
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022

Guard Scanner.exe

File name: Guard Scanner.exe
Size: 261.12 KB (261120 bytes)
MD5: 77f6819719cadea85a639c960eca4a72
Detection count: 54
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022