CP Antivirus 2100

CP Antivirus 2100 is a known rogue anti-virus application from the family that uses cheap imitations of security functions as excuses to extract money from PC users. You should disregard the highly negative scanning results and alert messages from CP Antivirus 2100, since the content is predetermined and detached from your computer's true state of security. You may experience malicious attacks from rogue threats like CP Antivirus 2100, including browser hijacks, altered homepages and desktop backgrounds or malfunctioning applications. Any PC suffering from this infection should be considered highly vulnerable until the user completely removes CP Antivirus 2100.

Routes of CP Antivirus 2100 Infection

You may acquire a CP Antivirus 2100 infection in various ways, most of them deceptive and hidden:

• A trojan may infiltrate your PC and download other malware such as the rogue application CP Antivirus 2100. Trojans may continue to download other malicious software payloads even if the first program drop is deleted. Many trojans that specialize in distributing rogue programs like CP Antivirus 2100 will imitate Windows error message so that the user will install the rogue program themselves.
• Malicious code in advertisements or embedded directly on dangerous websites can force you to download malware like CP Antivirus 2100. Keeping very high security settings for your web browser will reduce the chance of these attacks, but completely preventing the possibility of them is effectively impossible.
• On certain freeware websites and malicious rogue program websites, CP Antivirus 2100 may be presented as a real and legitimate security program. Downloading CP Antivirus 2100 willingly subjects you to all the attacks that the rogue product also inflicts on unwilling victims.
• File-sharing networks and websites with poor uploading security may also host files that are infected with CP Antivirus 2100 or other rogue threats. Although CP Antivirus 2100 can't infect your system until the file is actually opened, installation may thereafter proceed automatically.

Most rogue PC threats like CP Antivirus 2100 including will add Registry entries for their programs into the startup routine for Windows. This causes CP Antivirus 2100 and similar malware to launch whenever the PC is booted, even if you don't see anything.

Why CP Antivirus 2100 Isn't the Antivirus for You

When CP Antivirus 2100 is active, it will display distressing error messages about infections and other problems with your computer. Any scanning displays CP Antivirus 2100 may offer will also show high levels of malware threats. This information is faked to procure your credit card number - although CP Antivirus 2100 may stop issuing these warnings if you waste money on registering it, the rogue program can't actually detect threats in the first place!

You may also find that applications run poorly or refuse to run at all when CP Antivirus 2100 is active. Anti-malware scanners and default Windows programs like the Task Manager, MSConfig and Registry Editor are all commonly disabled by rogue threats like CP Antivirus 2100. Preventing CP Antivirus 2100 from running will let you use these applications again in most cases.

Be watchful for strange browser behavior if you're browsing the web while CP Antivirus 2100 is open, even if the rogue program is only a memory process. CP Antivirus 2100 may monitor information transferred through your web browser, change your online content, prevent you from visiting beneficial websites or make you go to hostile ones.

Deleting CP Antivirus 2100 is the right thing to do to remove all of these issues. You should begin treatment by taking whatever measures are needed to stop CP Antivirus 2100 from launching to begin with, and then utilize widely-approved anti-malware applications. Once up against a real anti-malware program, the rogue program CP Antivirus 2100 will soon fall, assuming you have all required updates.