Windows Antidanger Center

Windows Antidanger Center Image

Windows Antidanger Center is one of many known clones of a rogue security program. These include programs like Windows Stability Alarm and Windows Verifying Center. These programs pretend to be system monitoring tools that give your computer system an unsatisfactory rating. They supposedly detect numerous infections that are completely made up and then try to get the user to pay to have them fixed.

The Windows Antidanger Center Interface

Windows Antidanger Center can be recognized because of Windows Antidanger Center's distinctive interface. Rogue security programs from the same family will display a list of different computer functions with a percentage rating. Most of the list will be in red, and it will give your computer a rating below 35 percent, urging you to fix the supposed problems by buying an 'advanced' version of Windows Antidanger Center. Entering your credit card information to buy Windows Antidanger Center will do nothing except give the criminals behind this program your money.

The Mafia Water Heater Scam and Windows Antidanger Center

The scam that Windows Antidanger Center and other similar programs use is one of the oldest tricks in the con-man's book, transferred into computer form. It is very similar to the old mafia water heater scam. In it, two thugs claiming to be from the gas company would show up at your house to check your water heater. Once the unsuspecting homeowner lets them in, the thugs would go and dismantle the water heater, telling the homeowner that it had numerous problems that needed to be repaired or replaced. The homeowner, seeing his water heater completely dismantled, often would have no choice but to pay up. Most of the time, the thugs would leave the water heater dismantled and just leave. Windows Antidanger Center does something similar. Windows Antidanger Center enters your computer disguised as an authentic tool for enhancing computer performance. Then Windows Antidanger Center uses various Trojans and dangerous scripts to make your computer run badly, block access to your applications and to the Internet. Then Windows Antidanger Center will notify the user that the computer is supposedly infected, having been itself the cause of most of the problems. Windows Antidanger Center will pressure the user into entering his credit card information to remove the supposed problems from his computer. Like with the mafia thugs, paying will do nothing to fix the computer problems left behind by Windows Antidanger Center.

How You Can Tell If Windows Antidanger Center is an Actual Computer Utility?

An obvious clue should be the fact that there is no such word as 'antidanger' in the English language. Most of these programs are thought to originate from the Russian Federation, and grammar and spelling mistakes in the program's interface and alerts are quite common. This is something that would never show up in legitimate Microsoft utilities. Authentic security programs do not install on your computer without your authorization. Real computer performance tools will never block your access to your own files or to the Internet. They also will not pester you with alarming error messages or prevent you from erasing them from your computer.