Rogue Security Software

The primary objective of most rogue security software is to trick the user into buying "update", which usually costs about $ 30.00 and $ 50.00. These malicious programs to run artificial "scans" to suffer and to indicate the number of computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware and adware. These reports are usually all fake positives, as the rogue software is not able to personally check on your computer. After promising to clean all of these threats to your computer, if you follow the link and purchase the upgrade. The update can or can not be prevented from continuing to scan the program to report a false positive. In any case, it is likely that will result in more serious infections, such as a rogue software associated with a variety of Trojan horses and other harmful components.

Some of the most malicious rogue anti-malware software is a more nefarious goals. They are installed key loggers from stealing confidential information, or agents to increase the infected computer botnet. The prevalence of rogue security software is on the rise. Trend Micro has reported a 5-fold year-over-year growth, and estimates that these applications account for as much as 10 percent of all current infections.

Removal of such malware rarely works in the normal "Add or Remove Programs" utility. Manual removal usually entails booting Windows in Safe Mode, find and delete files, registration cancellation affect the DLL, and editing the registry. In other words, in addition to the removal of many properties of the end user. There are some free utilities that can help, such as Malwarebyte.com free Rogue Remover utility. Of course, a proactive defense, is preferred. Users should never trust a website that claims to have found malware on their computers without being asked.