XP Home Security 2011

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XP Home Security 2011 is not security software. In fact, XP Home Security 2011 doesn't even have any affiliation with Microsoft or Windows XP. XP Home Security 2011 is a fake security program, designed to scare you into paying money for a nonexistent program license. In other words, XP Home Security 2011 is part of a scam. Do not believe anything that XP Home Security 2011 tells you about itself or the state of your PC security.

Symptoms Caused by XP Home Security 2011

If you have XP Home Security 2011 on your PC, you know first-hand how disruptive XP Home Security 2011 can be. The symptoms caused by XP Home Security 2011 are as follows:

• A fake scanner interface will appear every time Windows starts, and it will look relatively realistic, with a pirated Windows Security Center shield logo. This interface will pretend to run scans of your system, by playing a progress animation, and then XP Home Security 2011 will tell you that the only way to remove the huge number of threats XP Home Security 2011 has "found" is to purchase a license for XP Home Security 2011.
• Once Windows has started up, after the scanner has finished, XP Home Security 2011 will cause pop-up security messages to appear. They have headers that mention firewall alerts, hijacking, "stealth intrusions," and other nonsense, and they will warn you that XP Home Security 2011 has detected some very vague kind of threat. Ultimately, the alerts will try to get you to purchase XP Home Security 2011.
• XP Home Security 2011 will make changes to the Registry, causing a variety of other problems. You will not be able to use any programs other than your web browser, which will be hijacked and will only display a purchase site for XP Home Security 2011. You may find that your browser displays pop-up advertisements entirely on its own. Finally, XP Home Security 2011's bundled rootkit is so effective, XP Home Security 2011 will almost certainly run even when Windows is in Safe Mode.

As you can see, XP Home Security 2011 can lock down your computer, holding it hostage. The situation can seem pretty hopeless, but XP Home Security 2011 can be removed with the proper software and help. It is very important to remember that the threats reported by XP Home Security 2011 are false and that paying the money that XP Home Security 2011 demands will not cause XP Home Security 2011 to gain functionality or make it any easier to remove.

Where Did XP Home Security 2011 Come From?

XP Home Security 2011 is part of an infection more generally known as Win32/FakeRean, or the multi-rogue. This is because XP Home Security 2011 is just one of more than thirty names used by a single malicious application named according to what is found on the infected computer. Once the malware is on your computer, it checks to see which version of Windows you're running, and it uses that along with a phrase taken from a list in order to generate a name. XP Home Security 2011 is just one of at least eleven different names that this malware can take when it infects a computer running Windows XP.

Typically the malware that calls itself XP Home Security 2011 infects PCs by way of Trojan, which can be hidden in file downloads from peer-to-peer services, disguised as a video codec, attached to a spam email as a fake .pdf file, or installed by drive-by downloads in malicious pop-up advertisements. Trojan cannot replicate themselves – they aren't viruses – and so the only way your PC can wind up infected by the Trojan that supports XP Home Security 2011 is if you are tricked into downloading it. Once the Trojan is on your computer, it drops the files for XP Home Security 2011, and it names its main executable file using three randomly-chosen letters. The installation process that the Trojan initiates may even mimic the appearance of a Windows update process. However, the next time you start Windows, XP Home Security 2011 will be active, and things will really start to go wrong.

The malware at the heart of XP Home Security 2011 goes back to early 2010, but since the beginning of 2011, it seems to have picked up steam. XP Home Security 2011 has ultimately been traced back to Russia.