WinCleaner 2009

Posted: February 23, 2009

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	July 24, 2009
Last Seen:	December 3, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

WinCleaner 2009, also known as Win Cleaner 2009 or WinCleaner2009, is a rogue anti-spyware program designed by the same creators of Win Antivirus Vista/XP and ASC AntiSpyware. WinCleaner 2009 uses a series of malicious mechanisms to trick you into believing you need to purchase WinCleaner 2009's commercial version to get rid of your spyware infections. WinCleaner 2009 creators integrated ClamWin (a reliable anti-malware engine) so that it detects legitimate Windows programs as infections.

Once WinCleaner 2009 is installed, it will run its fake system scanner and generates a list of spyware results. In order to remove these supposed infections, you'll be lured into purchasing rogue WinCleaner 2009's full version. In addition, WinCleaner 2009 uses the help of Trojans to promote itself and generate fake alerts stating that your computer is infected with malware.

WinCleaner 2009 may be configured to run on every Windows startup. WinCleaner 2009 may cause computer slowdown, disable media players and may even cause total system disordering.

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:

wincleaner2009[1].exe

File name: wincleaner2009[1].exe
Size: 220.68 KB (220680 bytes)
MD5: a72cd916af5223df287473d1962617dd
Detection count: 51
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

WinCleaner.exe

File name: WinCleaner.exe
Size: 1.34 MB (1345032 bytes)
MD5: fa75b89f49dadcc00b6d1fa7622d460e
Detection count: 50
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathWin Cleaner.lnk

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ProgramFiles%\WinCleaner

The following cookies were detected:

wincleaner2009