Cash Edge Pop-Up Virus

The Cash Edge Pop-up is a symptom of infection by a banking Trojan that attempts to steal personal information for online financial accounts. As expected, the Cash Edge Pop-up preferentially appears after you attempt to access the Cash Edge website, and requests that you enter confidential information as part of a recently-added security protocol. Victims who fall for this ruse will end up handing the information entered over to the Cash Edge Pop-up's corresponding Trojan, which will transmit this info to criminals that can use Cash Edge Pop-up to compromise your account and finances. ESG malware experts recommend that you consider your PC infected with a high-level threat after any visible signs of a Cash Edge Pop-up, which should be considered as good as a prompt to scan your PC with powerful anti-malware software immediately.

Cutting Yourself on Cash Edge Pop-up's False Security Promises

On a passing glance, the Cash Edge Pop-up appears to be a notification of new 'extra risk-monitoring services' for cashedge.com, a company site that offers fund transfers and other online finance-related services. However, alert PC users will notice the similarity between a Cash Edge Pop-up and similar phishing attacks by various banking Trojans that often inject malicious content into certain web pages or launch pop-ups linked to certain URLs. For their part, ESG malware experts can confirm that Cash Edge doesn't use pop-ups that resemble anything like the Cash Edge Pop-up to notify customers of new security features – despite its inclusion of a seemingly-official company description and the Cash Edge logo.

The Cash Edge Pop-up, while it claims that Cash Edge Pop-up will notify you by phone in cases of improperly-entered information, doesn't serve any purpose except to encourage you to enter confidential information so that it can be transmitted to criminal third-parties. If you have entered this information, ESG malware researchers recommend contacting Cash Edge and any other relevant companies by phone so that you can receive advice on how to re-secure financial accounts that are in immediate danger of being compromised.

Keeping a Criminal Idea of Gathering Cash Out of Your Browser

Because the Cash Edge Pop-up is a symptom of a high-level PC threat with potentially-advanced spyware features, ESG malware analysts strongly recommend that you scan your computer as soon as you notice the Cash Edge Pop-up on cashedge.com or any other website. If you're using Windows, Safe Mode should be used as a preferable scanning environment, since this Windows feature disables many (if not all) simplistic types of malicious software.

Cash Edge Pop-up-related PC threats may also include other functions to attack your PC, including rootkit components that infect system files, memory-injection attacks, the ability to record your keyboard input and potential program-blocking behavior. Anti-malware scans to remove the source of Cash Edge Pop-ups always should scan all applicable hard drives to detect every related PC threat instead of just the banking Trojan that's responsible for the Cash Edge Pop-up.