XP Defender is a fake anti-spyware program that is dangerous to keep on your computer. It has the intention to scare users tremendously into believing their system is in danger. The malware comes into infected system without user’s consent or approval. It immediately runs the fake scanning of your system and then reports the number of fake security alerts, warnings and notifications. All such information should not be trusted.

PC Defender Plus stands for the misleading, fraudulent and malicious application developed by certain online hackers who want to quickly get easy cash, without too many essential efforts on their part. So, they’ve developed a fake antispyware utility that runs fake scans of your system and displays fake alerts to scare users into believing their computer is in danger. However, the whole truth we know about this program is that it can only display fake infections that aren’t even peculiar to your machine. And the quicker you remove this scam the better for your system. Why is it so, you wonder? The reason is because PC Defender Plus is a serious malware that can bring other, more severe infections to your system.

Hackers use various methods of tricking users and making them download malware onto their systems. Today it has come to our attention that they actively use bogus MSE Alerts as a method of implanting malwares into infected systems. However, this trick has been used long time ago. This is not something new. It just happens that sometimes this method is actively used by the crooks, whereas in other cases it is not as widely spread. Nevertheless, various cyber infections today are being hidden under these bogus Microsoft Security Essential Alerts, so users must be very careful.

Internet Crime Complaint Center warning is a new scam that belongs to the “ransomware” group of infections. This is a desktop locker, as well as the keyboard locker of the infected computer. Users who got this nasty Trojan can’t do anything to get their systems back to work. By the way, all the PC restart attempts turn out to be vain, irrespective of how many times the restart attempts were accomplished. The virus comes as a fake Internet Crime Complaint Center notification that says this:

Today there are many viruses in the world wide web that can be spread in various forms. Often hackers use all kinds of methods of implanting malwares into the potentially attackable computers. For example, they create the executable and name it as flv_codec_pack_228_full.exe. However, in reality this executable contains virus file which, upon execution, may bring serious malware into your system. We found about the name of this executable just recently and therefore hurry up to notify our readers about it.

Today many active PC users suffer a lot due to the problem of their browser being hijacked with scour.com online redirection trojan. It is also known as click.scour.com redirect issue. This means that instead of their normal browser interface they see the unusual background and the search bar that associates itself with scour.com. When they indicate certain search request the chances are that they will find some information they need, however, there may also be other redirection to certain unwanted sites, with various off-topic results also generated. This is the variant of unfair goods promotion and e-commerce, but the saddest part is that this is also a special virus infection that takes the direct part in redirection of your search engine. There are also chances that this virus may also bring other serious malwares into your computer. So, as you see, users must be very careful when they deal with such browser redirection issues.

This virus targets computers located in Finland. It belongs to a special group of computer infections that are categorized as ransomware. From this word one can make the right conclusion that “ransomware” is a desktop-locking program that asks for some ransom to be paid in order to unlock the computer. This infection generally appears out of the blue, without user’s expectation. When one tries to restart the system the same locked status remains, no matter how many restart attempts were applied. So, here is how the Poliisi locker looks like:

Personal Protector 2013 is a new virus that should be correctly understood as fake AV (bogus anti-malware utility). The purpose of this program is to trick unwary users into wasting their funds for the totally useless and fake security software. The behavior of this scam is quite predictable and even similar to that of many other rogues. The program doesn’t ask for user’s permission to enter the computer. Its installation is carried out in a hidden manner, thus users cannot terminate its infiltration process ahead of time. This procedure is carried out with the participation of a special Trojan horse that is very dangerous and may even bring other malwares into your computer. You cannot find Personal Protector 2013 program in the list of your Control Panel where you can easily get rid of any legitimate installed program. Why is it so? Simply because Personal Protector 2013 is a scam that doesn’t use fair methods of entering the PC, so there’s nothing to be surprised about its hazardous nature.

The scary warning that says “Komputer został zablokowany z powodu naruszenia prawa polskiego” is another ransomware program that is also described as reveton trojan (ransomware). This is the desktop locker that hijacks the screen of the infected computer and doesn’t let user do anything with it. Restarting the computer doesn’t really help, irrespective of the number of restart attempts. The same locked status and the scary message remains. This message, by the way, is presented as some Polish police alert, but in reality this is the virus that is developed by the team of cyber hackers who want to deceive and trick users of Poland. Here is what the fake police warning message says:

Europol is a good European Law Enforcement Agency that protects the legal rights of European residents. Today, regretfully, hackers user its good name for reaching their evil goals. They developed a new ransomware program, the virus that locks the desktop of the infected computer and asks for a ransom to be paid in favor of its developers. For this reason this ransomware is referred to by some users as Europol virus, even though it has nothing to do with development and distribution of this scareware around various European countries.