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Fix-issues.timehare.com

Posted: November 22, 2013

Fix-issues.timehare.com is a search site that has been linked to pop-up attacks and the display of system warnings that often are used to install PUP system cleaners or security products. Although malware experts have yet to see Fix-issues.timehare.com using software exploits to install these PUPs, contact with Fix-issues.timehare.com still should be avoided, as is recommended with all likely infection vectors on the Web. PUP installed with the help of Fix-issues.timehare.com may cause problems including browser hijackers, new types inaccurate pop-up alerts, reduced security settings or blocked software, and removing all Fix-issues.timehare.com-promoting products from your PC with a legitimate anti-malware program is the response malware experts definitely would recommend.

The Fix-It Man with All the Problems in the World to Bring to Your PC

An initial exploration into the Timehare.com site might lead you to think that it's a contentless but harmless search engine website, with most of its features yet to be implemented. Delving a little deeper into a prominent sub-domain, Fix-issues.timehare.com may elaborate on this site's real purpose of distributing PUPs to new computers under the false pretense of protecting them from Registry errors and other system problems. These warning messages don't include any kind of accurate system information, and malware experts easily verified that they appear regardless of the details of your computer setup.

Launching Fix-issues.timehare.com's offered 'PC-fixing' software installs a system optimizer, PC Speed Maximizer, which claims to improve your computer's performance by correcting Registry errors. In point of fact, Fix-issues.timehare.com has a long history of detecting inaccurate system errors, failing to clean PCs appropriately, being incapable of backing up its overblown marketing claims of its own features and being marketed through numerous suspicious sites, the latter of which now including Fix-issues.timehare.com in their numbers.

A Speedy Way to Fix the Real Issues with Fix-issues.timehare.com

Although PC Speed Maximizer isn't the most harmful program, you could install by mistake and lacks the widespread security program-blocking assaults of many other PUP system cleaner families. The current download methods used in Fix-issues.timehare.com's warning messages appear to be limited to requiring user interaction to download the relevant fake security program, but considering the potential for an infected PC after any contact with a threat-distributing website is a good security practice. Unlike legitimate software, software installed through Fix-issues.timehare.com can't be trusted to uninstall itself upon prompting, which leads into the natural recommendation of using anti-malware programs to remove Fix-issues.timehare.com from your PC.

Alas, Fix-issues.timehare.com is far from unique, with a multitude of other Web domains throughout the Web equally interested in distributing PUP system cleaners. Speedupyourpc.com and PCSpeedplus.com are two of the other sites that malware experts confirmed for involvement in PC Speed Maximizer's campaign of distribution. In all cases, secondary PC threats may generate pop-ups for these sites automatically, and should be considered just as risky as the threat they prompt you to install.

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