Soft Soldier
Posted: October 15, 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: | 19 |
First Seen: | December 1, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | November 4, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Soft Soldier (SoftSoldier) is a rogue anti-spyware program that comes from the hackers that created WiniGuard, Trust Soldier, Safe Fighter and Trust Fighter, which are fake security applications. Soft Soldier, through the use of fake popup messages and bogus system scans, attempts to push computer users into purchasing a full version of Soft Soldier making them believe that it will resolve all issues it detected.
Soft Soldier is not able to detect or remove legitimate computer parasites. Instead, Soft Soldier is virtually a bogus security application. Manual remove of Soft Soldier is somewhat difficult to successfully complete.
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:SoftSoldier.exe
File name: SoftSoldier.exeSize: 831.48 KB (831488 bytes)
MD5: cc6bb5b88220050b3b48158dedc4af74
Detection count: 54
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
setup[1].exe
File name: setup[1].exeSize: 915.3 KB (915305 bytes)
MD5: 3b015f7d543f68a859037376881071ae
Detection count: 53
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
A friend of mine got SoftSoldier on her computer, she consulted me about it.
The removal instruction here did not help, perhaps they have renamed the files, registry keys etc?