Milestone Antivirus
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Threat Level: | 100 % (High) |
Infected Computers: | 13 |
First Seen: | June 8, 2011 |
Last Seen: | August 17, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Milestone Antivirus is a fake security tool from the FakeScanti family that ransoms the proper operation of your computer until you purchase its software product. Milestone Antivirus is advertised through the use of Trojans that will install the bogus anti-spyware application onto your computer system without your consent, as well as advertisements simulating to be online anti-malware scanners. Once Milestone Antivirus is installed on a PC, it will be configured to launch automatically when Windows starts. When initiated, Milestone Antivirus will execute a scan and claim that you have numerous viruses on your computer, but will not enable you to remove them until you purchase the software program. In reality, all of the files it claims are malware infections are actually legitimate Microsoft Windows files and none of these files are actually malicious.
Milestone Antivirus has various clones that include Security Guard, Sysinternals Antivirus, Wireshark Antivirus, BlueFlare Antivirus, WolfRam AntiVirus, OpenCloud Antivirus, OpenCloud Security, Data Restore, OpenCloud AV, Security Guard 2012, AV Guard Online, Guard Online, Cloud Protection, AV Protection Online, System Protection 2012, AV Security 2012, Sphere Security 2012, AV Protection 2011, Super AV 2013.
While Milestone Antivirus is running on a PC system, it will block programs from running on your computer. When you try to run an application, Milestone Antivirus will terminate it and show a fake security message. Milestone Antivirus will also show fabricated security alerts in order to intimidate you into believing that you have a serious security problem on your computer. The virus messages and pop-up security alerts are all completely falsified and should be rejected. Milestone Antivirus was designed to mislead you into believing your files are corrupted so that you will then buy the fake program. You should not purchase Milestone Antivirus scareware and remove it and any related malware threats immediately after its detection.
Table of Contents
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Milestone Antivirus
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.
|
---|---|---|---|
1. | csrss.exe | 01b754b42f889f45017941a9e4573dcf | 2 |
2. | Milestone Antivirus.exe | 6be284d931aaeffd656d0beab8974bae | 2 |
3. | c:\Program Files\Milestone Antivirus\Milestone Antivirus.exe | ||
4. | c:\Program Files\csrss.exe | ||
5. | c:\Program Files\conhost.exe | ||
6. | c:\Program Files\scdata\wskinn.exe | ||
7. | c:\Program Files\nuar.old | ||
8. | c:\Program Files\skynet.dat | ||
9. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\ | ||
10. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\i3.gif | ||
11. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\j3.gif | ||
12. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\jj3.gif | ||
13. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\l3.gif | ||
14. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\t2.gif | ||
15. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\w1.gif | ||
16. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\wt1.gif | ||
17. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\Thumbs.db | ||
18. | %UserProfile%\Desktop\Milestone Antivirus.exe.txt | ||
19. | %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Milestone Antivirus\ | ||
20. | c:\Program Files\Milestone Antivirus.ico | ||
21. | c:\Program Files\sh4.dat | ||
22. | c:\Program Files\scdata\wispex.html | ||
23. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\i2.gif | ||
24. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\j2.gif | ||
25. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\jj2.gif | ||
26. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\l2.gif | ||
27. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\t1.gif | ||
28. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\up2.gif | ||
29. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\w2.gif | ||
30. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\wt3.gif | ||
31. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\word.doc | ||
32. | %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Milestone Antivirus\Milestone Antivirus.lnk | ||
33. | c:\Program Files\Milestone Antivirus\ | ||
34. | c:\Program Files\sh3.dat | ||
35. | c:\Program Files\scdata\ | ||
36. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\i1.gif | ||
37. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\j1.gif | ||
38. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\jj1.gif | ||
39. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\l1.gif | ||
40. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\pix.gif | ||
41. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\up1.gif | ||
42. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\w11.gif | ||
43. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\wt2.gif | ||
44. | c:\Program Files\scdata\images\w3.jpg | ||
45. | %UserProfile%\Desktop\Milestone Antivirus.lnk | ||
46. | conhost.exe | 0db896d10b5b8da528e177e35129a995 | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
Milestone Antivirus may create the following directory or directories:
%APPDATA%\Milestone Antivirus |
%ProgramFiles%\Milestone Antivirus |