WiniFighter
Posted: July 8, 2009
Threat Metric
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 |
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Infected PCs: | 9 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | January 9, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
WiniFighter is a fake security application that uses many deceiving methods for persuading purchase of the full licensed version of WiniFighter. Once installed, WiniFighter display many false Windows security center alerts and performs system scans that displays fake results. In addition, WiniFighter is able to redirect you to malicious websites that can further infected your system with unknown parasites.
Through a Trojan horse infection or malicious website, WiniFighter can be downloaded and automatically installed onto your system. WiniFighter is also able to load at startup of Windows making it difficult to manually detect and remove.
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:WiniFighter.exe
File name: WiniFighter.exeSize: 645.12 KB (645120 bytes)
MD5: dd0009fb97e15f2b9ef09e55023d313d
Detection count: 92
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
WiniFighterSvc.exe
File name: WiniFighterSvc.exeSize: 41.47 KB (41472 bytes)
MD5: b59f09630c294f08147408176d02d161
Detection count: 91
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
setup[1].exe
File name: setup[1].exeSize: 1.72 MB (1724072 bytes)
MD5: 6445de72e389d2103eccb5c7a6a46303
Detection count: 90
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
WiniFighterSvc.exe
File name: WiniFighterSvc.exeSize: 41.98 KB (41984 bytes)
MD5: 76034403a037fa258452f3d024b302d5
Detection count: 37
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
WiniFighter.exe
File name: WiniFighter.exeSize: 643.07 KB (643072 bytes)
MD5: eab53a777cf5622ef59ec840abe63163
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
manual instructions did not clear the system of the malware. registry keys were detected in safe mode and upon trying to delete access was denied by the OS... 🙁