PC Security 2009
Posted: July 9, 2009
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 19 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | January 11, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
PC Security 2009 is a fake security program that comes from the same group of attackers that develop and advertise WinReanimator and Home Antivirus 2009, which are both rogue anti-spyware programs. PC Security 2009 may be advertised and installed through the Trojan horse Trojan-Downloader.Braviax. Various misleading popup alerts or bogus system notifications are known to come from this Trojan infection. Usually the messages are used as an attempt to entice purchase of the full PC Security 2009 application.
Once PC Security 2009 is installed onto your system it is usually followed up with a system scan that returns several misleading results. The system scan may initiate each time you startup Windows which can make PC Security 2009 very difficult to manually detect and remove. One of the fake alerts display by PC Security 2009 reads:
"WARNING! PC Security 2009 has found 35 useless and unwanted files on your computer!
19 of those those items are considered as critical privacy compromising content
8 of those those items are considered as medium privacy threats
8 of those those items are considered to be junk content of low privacy threats
Personal data at the reach of anyone's hand
Internet history records available
Compromising and adult material stored on your system
Chat session's logs and personal Emails easily reachable"
PC Security 2009 is unable to provide a solution to any computer infection or unwanted files on your computer. It is recommended that you remove PC Security 2009 before it is able to cause serious damage to your system.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:PC_Security2009.exe
File name: PC_Security2009.exeSize: 640.32 KB (640329 bytes)
MD5: acb1126a534798e5e63ac88c0bb76a2b
Detection count: 52
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
PC_Security2009.exe
File name: PC_Security2009.exeSize: 643.98 KB (643988 bytes)
MD5: 29130e92cb8731cc0e986aef0239921a
Detection count: 50
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
Installer2[1].exe
File name: Installer2[1].exeSize: 240.64 KB (240644 bytes)
MD5: 2ecaf4d253096e367c185218106d8c35
Detection count: 42
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
PC_Security2009.exe
File name: PC_Security2009.exeSize: 639.75 KB (639759 bytes)
MD5: 200b3b3999df8b80d3c474f0fa0b682b
Detection count: 34
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
PC_Security2009.exe
File name: PC_Security2009.exeSize: 640.09 KB (640097 bytes)
MD5: 1e79aee560713a37d45d824d561e4625
Detection count: 16
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
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