Win 8 Protection 2014

Posted: September 8, 2014

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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.

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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:	8/10
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	September 11, 2014
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Re-demonstrating the trends of scamware to clone themselves with new names, Win 8 Protection 2014 is a member of FakeRean, which, itself, is the latest revision to a group of fake anti-virus scanners. Current analysis of Win 8 Protection 2014's capabilities leads malware researchers to estimate that Win 8 Protection 2014 continues to include attacks affecting your Web browser and security software while also trying to fake the services of an anti-virus scanner. Removing Win 8 Protection 2014 from your PC should be treated as a task equally urgent as to removing any Trojan or other threatening software, and you should ignore any security information offered by this scamware.

The AV Protection that's More of a Virus than a Protector

Fake security software campaigns have been in circulation for years, with the Multi-Rogue and FakeRean families being two particularly prominent examples of such scamware. Win 8 Protection 2014 is one of the newest members of both groups and continues to exhibit their definitive traits: pop-ups windows with warnings about nonexistent threats, inaccurate anti-virus scans and a variety of intentionally anti-security attacks. Security researchers have determined some of the most threatening of the latter for your protection, as follows:

Your browser may behave unusually, such as displaying fake warning messages, redirecting itself to hostile sites or failing to load legitimate security websites.
Other applications may fail to open or close immediately after launch.
Essential components of Windows may fail to operate, including Task Manager, Regedit and the Windows Update utility.

Win 8 Protection 2014 blames its attacks on the presence of nonexistent threats supposedly detected by its fake anti-virus features, with the ultimate intention of causing you to buy its registration key. In past variants of similar scamware, malware experts have found no harm to come from registering it through a freely-distributed key, but they always advise against buying a key for Win 8 Protection 2014 or any other fake software. Regardless of whether you use a free registration option or not, you always should consider Win 8 Protection 2014 nothing less than a threat and an immediate danger to your computer.

Protecting Yourself from the Spread of Win 8 Protection 2014

Win 8 Protection 2014 is one of many versions of its family of fraudulent anti-virus software, although its confirmation as an individual member was recent. Others may use different brand names, but show all signs of being designed with similar attacks and symptoms in mind. Some examples of Win 8 Protection 2014 family members include Antivirus 2008 Pro, Antivirus XP 2008, Windows Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2008, PC Clean Pro, Antivirus Pro 2009, Rogue.Vista Antivirus 2008, AntiSpy Safeguard, ThinkPoint, Spyware Protection 2010, Internet Antivirus 2011, Palladium Pro, XP Anti-Virus 2011, CleanThis, XP Security 2012, XP Home Security 2012 and AntiVirus PRO 2015. Web browser security should be one of your priorities in blocking Win 8 Protection 2014's distribution, which is likely to use corrupted advertisements, drive-by-downloads and other content based on compromised (or intentionally toxic) Web pages for installation.

Because Win 8 Protection 2014 may disable the security tools required for its safe deletion, you should remove Win 8 Protection 2014 with appropriate strategies for disabling all threats beforehand. These can include using Safe Mode, switching to an alternate OS temporary or booting your computer from a removable hard drive, all of which should be able to avoid Win 8 Protection 2014's startup routine. Without Win 8 Protection 2014 been active, any competent anti-malware scanner should have no issues with disinfecting your computer.

Win 8 Protection 2014

Threat Metric

The AV Protection that's More of a Virus than a Protector

Protecting Yourself from the Spread of Win 8 Protection 2014

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