Personal Security
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EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecard
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See also Threat Assessment Criteria.
| Threat Level: | 100 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 172 |
| First Seen: | December 1, 2009 |
| Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Personal Security Image
Personal Security or PersonalSecurity, is a rogue security application out to trick users out of their money. Personal Security infects users' systems with the help of a Trojan or malicious advertisements on the internet. Once Personal Security has infiltrated a system it will perform a fake system scan and report several malware infections. All reports, virus alerts or pop-ups displayed by Personal Security are fabricated and should not be trusted. Do not by any means purchase Personal Security; it is a useless program that should be removed immediately after detection.
Personal Security is one more member of a big family of fake security applications, the FakeXPA family, and a clone of the fraudulent security tools such as Antivirus 360, AntivirusBEST, Nortel Antivirus, Alpha Antivirus, Anti-virus Professional, Antivirus 2010, Cyber Security, MaCatte Antivirus 2009, Eco Antivirus, Antivir, Ghost Antivirus, Antivirus 7, Antivirus GT, Earth Antivirus, Antivirus 8, AVG Antivirus 2011, E-Set Antivirus 2011, XP Antivirus 2013.
Table of Contents
Aliases
15 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| eTrust-Vet | Win32/PersonalSecurity.AQ |
| AhnLab-V3 | Trojan/Win32.FakeAV |
| Panda | Trj/Zlob.KH |
| NOD32 | a variant of Win32/Kryptik.DSJ |
| McAfee-GW-Edition | Trojan.FraudPack.atox |
| Kaspersky | Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.atox |
| Fortinet | W32/FakeAV.ATOX!tr |
| AVG | Generic17.BIZG |
| Antiy-AVL | Trojan/Win32.FraudPack.gen |
| AntiVir | TR/FraudPack.atox |
| McAfee-GW-Edition | Artemis!C12EC5F1E1BF |
| Kaspersky | Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.auhx |
| BitDefender | Gen:Variant.Renos.27 |
| AntiVir | TR/FraudPack.auhx |
| a-squared | Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.auhx!A2 |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Personal Security
Personal Security Video
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File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | psecurity.exe | 05822777c6964096b89deec8da3554df | 9 |
| 2. | psecurity.exe | 4ce2918ece45e79463e307b555c3a923 | 7 |
| 3. | psecurity.exe | 6e9de2bfb37d2e1bcd4acd1335abbbec | 6 |
| 4. | psecurity.exe | ee23a7252326ba8911326f55b851eb20 | 5 |
| 5. | psecurity.exe | aff43bc04548449661fc1ca2dba6112b | 5 |
| 6. | psecurity.exe | dc2441ec0a814e9a0023e988d33dc977 | 4 |
| 7. | psecurity.exe | 61dabcdec58f9ea6f49fea5181c83346 | 3 |
| 8. | psecurity.exe | 1f2d14cde13d0e37a1e050a1a136d72b | 3 |
| 9. | psecurity.exe | 61bca62117140448b01ac89f85dc8b18 | 3 |
| 10. | psecurity.exe | 0a760ce713085a023268a9aa42864de5 | 2 |
| 11. | psecurity.exe | fbef3c8b4524ca03cf72d61a72e76f36 | 2 |
| 12. | psecurity.exe | c12ec5f1e1bf3d9b6f530ab47066dac7 | 2 |
| 13. | psecurity.exe | a0554301e9960b39a143cce06f00ef37 | 2 |
| 14. | psecurity.exe | 41ee2c5313de1de53862229361e17882 | 2 |
| 15. | psecurity.exe | 3ba75da6d1e9a4eaf0ae01d2b7375641 | 2 |
| 16. | manual_cs.exe | 97d94088a9a64c30a747a5b69928dd7c | 1 |
| 17. | psecurity.exe | 3469449153f79ad4b4ca39f0f198675a | 1 |
| 18. | psecurity.exe | 4d9dc21c29856ce0742231dd2d401df9 | 1 |
| 19. | psecurity.exe | 6ca20753a25c11728bf151cd250b65e4 | 1 |
| 20. | psecurity.exe | f7dd1f9573436e53a99ba39b7d0c3894 | 1 |
| 21. | psecurity.exe | 2cba5690e41f440fc697781045157945 | 1 |
| 22. | psecurity.exe | 671f2a9b8ba58d31d815984367aed224 | 1 |
| 23. | psecurity.exe | 784b1516f75c6d93348db40323e3302e | 1 |
| 24. | psecurity.exe | 1404f212735172f0eca3a11020a2d636 | 1 |
Directories
Personal Security may create the following directory or directories:
| %ProgramFiles%\PSecurity |
| %ProgramFiles%\PersonalSec |
Messages
The following messages associated with Personal Security were found:
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Spyware activity alert!
Spyware.IEMonster activity detected. It is spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook and other programs, including logins and passwords from online banking sessions, eBay, PayPal. It may also create special tracking files to log your activity and compromise your Internet privacy. It's strongly recommended to remove this threat as soon as possible. Click here to remove Spyware.IEMonster. |
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Spyware activity alert!
Spyware.IEMonster is a popular spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Web browsers, e-mail clients and other programs, including login information from online banking sessions, billing pages, CC transactions, etc. It may also create special tracking files to log your activity and compromise your Internet privacy. It is strongly recommended to prevent this threat immediately. Click here to get protection against Spyware.IEMonster. |
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System files modification alert!
Some critical system files of your computer were modified by malicious program. It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unauthorized modification by removing threats (Recommended). |
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This website has been reported as unsafe
We strongly recommend to discontinue the use of this website. Register your computer's security software This website has been report to Microsoft for containing threats that might steal personal or financial information from your computer. |
