Security Soldier
Posted: September 28, 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: | 12 |
First Seen: | December 1, 2009 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Security Soldier or SecuritySoldier, is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses misleading popup messages and system scans that return erroneous results to make computer users believe that they need to purchase the full Security Soldier application to remove security threats. Security Soldier comes from the same family of rogue security programs such as SystemCop, SecurityFighter, SaveDefender, SaveArmor and SoftSafeness. Just like all of these rogues, Security Soldier is unable to detect or remove computer parasites or security threats.
Security Soldier is not a trusted application and has proven to be difficult to manually detect and remove from an infected system.
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:setup[1].exe
File name: setup[1].exeSize: 919.06 KB (919069 bytes)
MD5: 8a5348e10866ad2a8738fb36b667c7fe
Detection count: 16
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
SecuritySoldier.exe
File name: SecuritySoldier.exeSize: 831.48 KB (831488 bytes)
MD5: f48e1aa66c3ab071290e3c31ca0f569a
Detection count: 8
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
I downloaded and installed a program called "TrustedSoldier", which has adversly affected my friend's Vista-based computer. Do you have any info on this particular version? After it was uninstalled, it still came up and won't be gone! I'd appreciate any special instructions you have concerning this version. Thank You -- Joe