Personal Protector
Posted: November 16, 2009
Threat Metric
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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: | 63 |
First Seen: | December 1, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | January 23, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Personal Protector is a rogue security program and clone of the rogue anti-spyware program Personal Guard 2009. Both Personal Protector and Personal Guard 2009 use the same methods of displaying bogus parasite popup alerts and system scan results to scare computer users into buying a full version of the malicious security program, Personal Protector or Personal Guard 2009.
Personal Protector should never be used for your computer security needs. Personal Protector is unable to detect or rid your system of parasites nor will be protect you from legitimate future threats. It is highly advisable that Personal Protector is detected and safely removed with a reputable spyware removal tool.
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:personalprotector.exe
File name: personalprotector.exeSize: 1.04 MB (1040896 bytes)
MD5: 68b9f90c452feef229bc0282edca90da
Detection count: 96
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2010
personalprotector.exe
File name: personalprotector.exeSize: 1.04 MB (1040896 bytes)
MD5: 199e2277249c464555382c7ddcd267db
Detection count: 88
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2010
personalprotector.exe
File name: personalprotector.exeSize: 1.01 MB (1012736 bytes)
MD5: 2f92feb2cb9142cdf0301ee5f9844518
Detection count: 36
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2010
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Documenti\Download\***s Rogue Pack\***'s Rogue Pack\PersonalProtector.exe
File name: PersonalProtector.exeSize: 2.24 MB (2244608 bytes)
MD5: 672d77d4bc81da0850cd970fa682fa47
Detection count: 30
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Documenti\Download\***s Rogue Pack\***'s Rogue Pack\PersonalProtector.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 23, 2022
personalprotector.exe
File name: personalprotector.exeSize: 1.01 MB (1012736 bytes)
MD5: b6dd13979cf76c7e770a5dd7e0bc77c9
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
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