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Win-live-care.com

Posted: March 16, 2010

Win-live-care.com is a rogue website which promotes Windows Defender 2010. Win-live-care.com uses Trojans as browser hijackers so that everytime the computer goes online they will get redirected to Win-live-care.com. The rogue site has the ability to manufacture fake system scans which produce bogus results claiming the PC is infected with malware. The user will soon be bombarded by popups urging the purchase of Windows Defender 2010 to remove the alleged threats. Do not fall for this trickery and use a reliable malware remover to terminate all threats associated to this blatant scam.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Windows Defender 2010.lnk
    2 %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Defender 2010

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows Defender 2010HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Windows Defender 2010"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Windows Defender 2010
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