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XP Antimalware Spyware Alert

Posted: March 1, 2011

XP Antimalware Spyware Alert is a rogue anti-malware program that fakes useful infection-fighting functions to wheedle money from unwary computer users. The XP Antimalware Spyware Alert rogue anti-malware program has been noted as a copy of other notorious ones like AntiVira Av and XP Internet Security 2010, is spread by trojans, disables security applications and is able to hijack your web browser. With all these damaging functions and not a single useful one to its name, XP Antimalware Spyware Alert is an infection worthy of rapid deletion rather than tolerance.

XP Antimalware Spyware Alert is just an Imitator, But an Effective One

Infections by XP Antimalware Spyware Alert bear a strong resemblance to infections by other well-known rogue anti-malware programs due to most of the code being identical in all major respects. XP Antimalware Spyware Alert can, therefore, be detected easily by good anti-malware scanners if you've kept your malware definitions updated. XP Antimalware Spyware Alert may prevent these programs from running in the first place, though, which is probably the greatest threat XP Antimalware Spyware Alert presents.
 
If you acquire a XP Antimalware Spyware Alert infection, it will probably be through a Trojan. Trojans are widely used to download and run programs without the user's awareness, enabling any amount of additional malware attacks. If you're trying to delete XP Antimalware Spyware Alert, you should also be wary about any related infections, since just deleting the rogue scanner may cause the Trojan to re-infect the system all again.

Major Symptoms of XP Antimalware Spyware Alert Hostility

Rogue anti-malware programs like XP Antimalware Spyware Alert will not hide from you, since they want you to mistake them for legitimate security tools. Just like real anti-malware software, they'll offer up scans and warn you of system errors, but unlike a genuine product, XP Antimalware Spyware Alert uses fake results and messages that are disconnected from your computer's state of health.
 
Other attacks by XP Antimalware Spyware Alert may encompass:

  • Browser hijacks. This rogue anti-malware program can forcibly redirect your browser away from helpful security sites to prevent you from getting the tools to delete XP Antimalware Spyware Alert. XP Antimalware Spyware Alert's redirects will usually place you in additional danger as you're forced towards a malicious website that will drop malware onto your system or try to steal your confidential information or money.
  • Program instability. As we saw above, XP Antimalware Spyware Alert can and will shut down security programs, and will often use fake errors to pretend this isn't its own fault. This behavior can also extend to baseline Windows programs like Task Manager as well as pretty much anything else.
  • Excessive resource use, both in terms of RAM and hard drive space. XP Antimalware Spyware Alert and other rogue anti-malware programs often use up resources for no other purpose than to hamper your computer, making the machine act as though it truly was plagued by dozens of infections.

Other problems may also result, but these are the foremost tricks of rogue anti-mamalware tools like XP Antimalware Spyware Alert. The security problems especially mandate that one delete XP Antimalware Spyware Alert swiftly, since a machine that's vulnerable to malware attacks in general can quickly be put into serious disrepair.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %Temp%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\
    2 %Temp%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter "Enabled" = "0"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyEnable" = "1"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:33921"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
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