Sgpsupport.com

Sgpsupport.com is a site affiliated with Winwebsec, one of the most prominent groups of fake anti-malware/system cleaner software. Visitors to Sgpsupport.com will be shown fraudulent 'scans' of their PCs as part of an attack that attempts to install a modern variant of WinWebSec, Smart Guard Protection. Smart Guard Protection continues the habits of past iterations of Winwebsec by blocking your software, disabling important security features, hijacking your Web browser and pretending to be a useful security program that's attempting to solve all of the problems that it's causing. Removing Sgpsupport.com's scamware should be done through dedicated anti-malware products, and malware experts would encourage scanning your PC with these products after any encounter with Sgpsupport.com, no matter how superficially trivial.

The PC Guard Whom You'd be Smart to Fire

Sgpsupport.com is a Web domain affiliated with an ongoing strategy involving the use of fake anti-malware applications that detect fake infections on your computer while simultaneously attacking it and demanding money to fix the issues that it's causing behind the victim's back. This scamware, Smart Guard Protection, is promoted through the common tactic of the website using a fake 'system scanner' that pretends to detect threats on any PC that loads Sgpsupport.com. A recommended download of Smart Guard Protection may present opportunities for providing additional fake system information while also attacking your computer in new ways.

Although Sgpsupport.com's confirmation as a threats site is recent, Smart Guard Protection and other Winwebsec variants have a long history on the Web. Malware researchers previously confirmed the following attacks related to Winwebsec, any of which may be used by Sgpsupport.com's fraudulent software:

• Browser hijacks that block PC security-related domains, such as Microsoft.com, while promoting Smart Guard Protection with fake alerts.
• Program-blocking behavior that prevents you from using most standard anti-malware tools, along with a range of standard Windows products.
• Registry changes that reduce or eliminate security features like the default firewall and the UAC.
• Pop-up warnings that warn you about nonexistent threat attacks and other security issues.

When considered as an entire attack front, these issues make it worth considering any scamware from Sgpsupport.com as a high-level threat to the basic safety of your PC, regardless of its pretensions of being a 'real' security program.

A Little Support for Getting the Best of Sgpsupport.com's Rogue Security Product

As a part of its ruse to steal money through a fake registration process, Sgpsupport.com does prefer to have the victim's cooperation in installing Smart Guard Protection. However, even contact with Sgpsupport.com where you refuse its download does have the risk of compromising your computer through a standard exploit-based attack. Malware researchers recommend a combination of passive anti-malware security to block these attacks, along with active anti-malware scans after an encounter with Sgpsupport.com or any similar site. If Smart Guard Protection blocks the security tools that would assist you with removing it, you should use any required tactics to disable Smart Guard Protection beforehand, such as booting your computer in Safe Mode.

Sgpsupport.com's Smart Guard Protection is one of the most recent pieces of Winwebsec-based threats to be seen online and has been in distribution since, at least, late 2013. However, new variants of Winwebsec frequently appear, and malware researchers continue to urge wariness against any program whose presence correlates with any of the symptoms that have been listed in this article.