Secure Antivirus Pro
Posted: May 16, 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: | 33 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Secure Antivirus Pro, also known as Secure Antivirus Pro, is a rogue anti-spyware program similar to Antivirus 2009. Once Secure Antivirus Pro is installed, you'll receive a large amount of fake system notification messages stating that it has detected a virus called Virut on your computer or it has detected identity theft. In order to remove the Virut infection, you'll be redirected to Secure Antivirus Pro's website where Secure Antivirus Pro is sold as a legitimate spyware remover. Secure Antivirus Pro's fake message alert reads:
"It seems that your computer is infected with W32:Virut virus. This threat has been designed to steal money, Internet accounts, send massive amounts of spam, and commit various kinds of fraud.
It is recommended that you remove this threat immediately to avoid participating in criminal activity.
Do you want to remove Virut now?"
In addition, Secure Antivirus Pro is able to run a fake computer system scan and generate a list of imaginary infections as a result. These scare tactics are only meant to scare you and lure you into purchasing the full Secure Antivirus Pro program. Secure Antivirus Pro is may also hijack your browser. Secure Antivirus Pro may come from the same creators of Antivirus 2008, Antivirus 360, and XP Antivirus.
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:AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 270.84 KB (270848 bytes)
MD5: 6dcdc68ab7d6f7dfcf70b2815ec25dfc
Detection count: 93
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 292.86 KB (292864 bytes)
MD5: 0e62263ecf04c99619910e7eb490ec0e
Detection count: 81
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 288.25 KB (288256 bytes)
MD5: c3d0251ac91e5969f630b1fc2f7800ed
Detection count: 80
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 288.25 KB (288256 bytes)
MD5: 57b114b9821ca8dcf7e71f093160502f
Detection count: 76
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 288.25 KB (288256 bytes)
MD5: b6c1b75f1d4031d84003613cbece55b8
Detection count: 74
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 288.76 KB (288768 bytes)
MD5: 7df1655fe2f89e638e9e4784dd26a4f0
Detection count: 73
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AV.EXE
File name: AV.EXESize: 495.1 KB (495104 bytes)
MD5: d92ab2d816a56c1fb4386b94d91cfb0a
Detection count: 70
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/EXE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
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