Windows Express Settings

Posted: February 22, 2011

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	7

First Seen:	February 22, 2011
Last Seen:	January 8, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Windows Express Settings is a clone of other rogue security scanners such as Windows Health Center and Windows Software Guard. Windows Express Settings usually infects systems with the help of a Trojan, so deleting Windows Express Settings completely may require deleting a secondary infection as well. Windows Express Settings offers security and anti-malware services, but issues warnings blindly and irrelevantly instead of offering messages related to the state of your computer. Rogue products such as Windows Express Settings are security risks for your computer and should never be tolerated on your system, let alone actually purchased.

A Rogue Product Microsoft Would Love to Disown

Windows Express Settings shares primary behavior and goals with many other similar rogue programs that are distributed in the same way Windows Express Settings is. Just one of a large crop of virtual scams, Windows Express Settings is part of a herd of possible rogue anti-virus infections that can be delivered right to your hard drive by the Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Malware.

This Trojan will enter your system quietly and then use false Trojan warnings to push you into installing its rogue anti-virus infection payload. Those who keep an eye out for the faked Security Essentials Alert message and destroy the Trojan instead of doing what it wants will have a much easier time of it, and may never see Windows Express Settings at all.

That's a pretty ideal state of affairs, because Windows Express Settings is anything but a convenient program to have on your machine.

The Diverse Windows Express Settings Onslaught

Though you might think that Windows Express Settings is an ordinary program at first, the Windows Express Settings rogue product will quickly grab hold of your machine so forcefully that you'll have a tough time thinking of Windows Express Settings as anything other than the threat Windows Express Settings really is. Windows Express Settings comes on strong by first changing your registry to enable its own startup with Windows, no matter what you may try to turn Windows Express Settings off! From this point on you'll be forced to endure Windows Express Settings 'scanning' your computer before you can access your desktop, but this scan is just a mindless graphical light show.

Windows Express Settings then follows this up with predetermined error messages. Many of these are identical to ones used by other rogues, making the malicious nature of Windows Express Settings that much easier to discern:

System Security Warning
Attempt to modify register key entries is detected. Register entries analysis is recommended.

Warning!
Name: firefox.exe
Name: c:\program files\firefox\firefox.exe
Application that seems to be a key-logger is detected. System information security is at risk. It is recommended to enable the security mode and run total System scanning.

System component corrupted!
System reboot error has occurred due to lsass.exe system process failure.
This may be caused by severe malware infections.
Automatic restore of lsass.exe backup copy completed.
The correct system performance can not be resumed without eliminating the cause of lsass.exe corruption.

The error messages provided by Windows Express Settings are false warnings to get you to waste money on registering Windows Express Settings to 'fix' the nonexistent issues. Don't give the criminals behind this rogue program any satisfaction; instead, remove Windows Express Settings from your system through standard malware-cleaning means. Hesitating in this will only prolong the amount of time your machine is vulnerable to attacks due to the lowered security rogue anti-virus infections like the ones Windows Express Settings inflicts on host systems as a matter of course!

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:

%AppData%\rsjbtk.exe

File name: rsjbtk.exe
Size: 2.6 MB (2600448 bytes)
MD5: bd4384d311198714f522a88c45163ab2
Detection count: 51
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %AppData%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2020