Windows Performance Manager

Posted: March 1, 2011

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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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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:	9

First Seen:	March 1, 2011
Last Seen:	January 8, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Windows Performance Manager is a rogue anti-malware scanner and a clone of similar rogue anti-malware infections. Like its clones, Windows Performance Manager primarily infects new computers through trojans that imitate the look of Windows system alerts. Installing Windows Performance Manager is equivalent to subjecting yourself to countless false error messages and pop-ups that appear with no rhyme or reason. All scanning results and other supposedly beneficial activities by this rogue anti-malware program are fake, and one should try to delete Windows Performance Manager quickly, as Windows Performance Manager is considered a substantial threat to system security.

Windows Performance Manager is a Trojan-Enabled Infection Vectors

Windows Performance Manager (note the misspelling in the name!) is a copy of other rogue anti-malware products like Windows Health Center and Windows Troubles Analyzer. Windows Performance Manager has the same behavior as these other rogue anti-malware tools, but Windows Performance Manager also shares their main entry method as well!

The Windows Performance Manager family of rogue anti-virus products is downloaded and installed primary by the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Malware. This Trojan is notorious for pretending to be anti-virus program chosen more or less at random.

If you see a strange pop-up error you've never seen before, avoid any installation prompts and instead give your computer a quick scan. It just might save you from Windows Performance Manager's clutches.

Windows Performance Manager's Rogue Anti-malware Program Manages False Positives

Windows Performance Manager is in the business of using false scan results and false error messages to confuse and frighten computer users. You should never purchase Windows Performance Manager's full version, since Windows Performance Manager can't help you and will not stop blaring its loud falsified system damage messages regardless of what you end up doing. Here's some of the messages you may see, based on code that sends them out with no regard for your computer's true integrity:

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.

Warning!
Name: taskmgr.exe
Name: C:WINDOWStaskmgr.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.

Windows Performance Manager will divide your system into easy to label groupings such as 'Privacy' and 'System security,' but you should disregard Windows Performance Manager's update recommendations for these fictitious groups just like you'd disregard Windows Performance Manager's error message pop-ups. All those visual displays are just more tricks to get you to give money to criminals.

Windows Performance Manager can also use these messages to block programs intentionally, as in the third message example with Task Manager. Because Windows Performance Manager shuts down true security programs and may also cause other problems such as hijacking your web browser, Windows Performance Manager is more than a nuisance but a serious enemy to your system security. Feel free to delete Windows Performance Manager whenever you have the time to do so; you're not losing anything from Windows Performance Manager's services except pain and trouble.

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%\ecxggg.exe

File name: ecxggg.exe
Size: 2.49 MB (2492416 bytes)
MD5: 0bd5767b2cf900f3ec17c5b23fb2bed4
Detection count: 4
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %AppData%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2020

Additional Information

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	Warning! Name: taskmgr.exe Name: C:\WINDOWS\taskmgr.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.