SoftBarrier
Posted: October 28, 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: | 37 |
First Seen: | December 1, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | March 28, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SoftBarrier is a fake security application that comes from the family of rogue anti-spyware programs known as WiniGuard, Soft Cop, Save Defense and others. Trojan horse infections are known to automatically install the SoftBarrier program onto computers over the internet. Once this process has taken place, computer users are usually prompted by fake parasite notifications. In addition, system scans are initiated by SoftBarrier that return bogus parasite results. These efforts are performed only to persuade computer users to purchase a full version of SoftBarrier.
SoftBarrier is not a security program that is capable of detecting or removing legitimate computer parasites. Removal of SoftBarrier is recommended to be performed with a spyware scan tool to limit damage caused by manual removal processes.
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:SoftBarrier.exe
File name: SoftBarrier.exeSize: 786.94 KB (786944 bytes)
MD5: b92edfa87d8cb599a8f620aa4d3970ff
Detection count: 92
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
setup[1].exe
File name: setup[1].exeSize: 882.85 KB (882859 bytes)
MD5: 0b5952b33b2d413c8cffe5656dbd2ce0
Detection count: 89
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
C:\Users\<username>\fakesecuritycenter.exe
File name: fakesecuritycenter.exeSize: 431.1 KB (431104 bytes)
MD5: fd3393651e1db5476c23b1c874117a95
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\fakesecuritycenter.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 28, 2023
C:\Users\<username>\setup.exe
File name: setup.exeSize: 882.86 KB (882865 bytes)
MD5: c1cc6a70f1b76916feb8e07d37d1808c
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\setup.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 28, 2023
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