Monday, September 13, 2010

A Threat For Your PC: SafetyPC

Since a bit, people using the Internet have become the main target of viruses (growing in numbers). Those viruses are using Trojans (being found on the Web) to spread themselves. Some of these viruses fall in the category of fake anti spyware applications and are extremely difficult to deal with. They are not easy at all to remove. They are not either easy to identify. SafetyPC is such malware. This is a rogue antivirus program that will infect your computer and it will try to make you believe it is indeed protecting Windows against threats. Here Online Virus Removal you will get more infos about remote computer repair.

End users are very easy to get tricked by SafetyPC. Soon after infecting your PC system, this spyware will do a fake scan of your computer system, so it will gain your trust even more. However, instead of looking for viruses and errors, the program actually creates new files and deletes files that are useful for the genuine anti viruses to detect it. It then asks the users to purchase the full version of SafetyPC for the large number of viruses found during the scan (which don’t even exist) to be removed. Lots of people will think their computer system is at high risks, and will actually pay the money to get some protection. Check here Spyware Comparison to learn more about the Top Spyware Removers.

Although you can see some warnings telling your PC has been compromised by SafetyPC, or anything similar:

- An overall slower performance of the operating system
- When browsing some pages, you will get problems – the program modifies the settings of the browser in order to lead the users to specific websites
- Lots of popups (and ads) won't allow you to properly do your tasks

When you think about related to SafetyPC, or any other fake antivirus solution, you should have in mind to never pay any money for the "registered" versions of such programs. Last thing, when you're thinking to remove it, always use some automatic application, rather than doing that manually, so your PC won't get damaged more than what did the virus to it.

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