Updatersoft.com

Updatersoft.com is a domain known for distributing threats disguised as download-management utilities. While Updatersoft.com claims that this software can improve the speed of all your Web browser's downloads, malware researchers have found that this Download Manager doesn't provide any such functions, and simply is a vehicle for infecting your PC with Trojans and other threats. Any contact with this kind of risky website, no matter how pleasantly disguised Updatersoft.com might be, always is a cause for using anti-malware software to analyze and protect your PC, even when you rightfully reject Updatersoft.com's fraudulent download offer.

The Poor Reward that Going Soft on Updatersoft.com Gets Your PC

Updatersoft.com is one of the many wolf-in-sheep's-clothing tactics on the Web today with an interest in distributing threats. Because non-consensual download attacks require some degree of skill (or financing) to implement, and may be blocked by appropriate PC security products, many threat distributors prefer to use Updatersoft.com's methodology of encouraging victims to install the very threat that will infect their computers. Updatersoft.com does this, of course, by describing its threat installation package as something else: a Download Manager program.

More well-educated PC users should be able to identify Updatersoft.com's Download Manager as a hoax with relatively little difficulty, since Updatersoft.com makes claims regarding its downloading features that are unlikely to be included in any kind of legitimate download-management suite. However, Updatersoft.com's strategy bears a strong resemblance to attacks that may be related to fake media-downloading websites, which may redirect you to Updatersoft.com in an attempt to make you think that downloading its Download Manager will let you have access to a movie or other file. Staying away from obviously illegal and untrustworthy download sources, and using passive browser security are two of the steps malware experts would consider most important to blocking Updatersoft.com redirects.

The Updates that can Save You from Fake Software

Although Updatersoft.com may look less threatening than a more openly toxic website, Updatersoft.com is just as hostile to your PC as all other infection vectors, and malware researchers recommend a wholesale avoidance of these sites whenever possible. Currently, Updatersoft.com does not appear to be using software exploits to install its fake Download Manager automatically, but updates to Updatersoft.com may change that in the future. Many threat-distribution sites will prefer to use multiple methods of infecting a visiting PC, but avoiding consensual downloads of mislabeled software from Updatersoft.com, and other threat sites, is always critical.

Since threats from Updatersoft.com may not show symptoms that are readily detectable visually, you should analyze your machine with an anti-malware program after any brush with Updatersoft.com, no matter how fleeting. This also applies to contact with other sites that you have any reason to suspect to be unsafe. Meanwhile, updating your PC security tools will increase the likelihood of recently-updated threat being removed.