MS Recovery Tool

Although MS Recovery Tool may claim to be a security software that can help to make your PC secure, MS Recovery Tool is nothing but a fraud. MS Recovery Tool is not affiliated with Microsoft, MS Recovery Tool can't perform a system recovery, and MS Recovery Tool isn't a utility. Don't waste your money on a license for MS Recovery Tool's fake security application.

Symptoms Caused by MS Recovery Tool

If you have MS Recovery Tool on your computer, you've noticed by now that MS Recovery Tool has a really strange, pink interface. This bogus pink user interface will load every time Windows starts, and from it, MS Recovery Tool will pretend to run a scan of your computer, by playing a progress animation and returning a list of so-called "results." Despite the fact that the scan may look relatively realistic, MS Recovery Tool can't actually scan for threats, and the viruses MS Recovery Tool claims to find on your computer aren't actually there. MS Recovery Tool is a scam, meant to scare you into paying for a worthless license; so, after giving you the scary-sounding, phony scan results, MS Recovery Tool will tell you that the only way it can remove the "threats" MS Recovery Tool has found is for you to purchase a MS Recovery Tool license.

Even after you have waited through the bogus scan, MS Recovery Tool will continue to try to scare you into a purchase by generating frequent error messages. These error messages start with "MS Recovery Tool Warning." They are generally very vague, and they will say that MS Recovery Tool has found a threat or a virus on your computer, without specifying what it is or where it has been found. One of the error messages that pop-up repeatedly even says that because a virus has been found on your PC, you need to activate MS Recovery Tool in order to keep your credit card information secure – never mind how those two things are supposed to be related. Actually, your credit card information will only be at risk if you decide to go to the MS Recovery Tool payment site and enter the information there, because the entire thing is a scam.

In order to keep you from deleting it, MS Recovery Tool does a few things to make it extremely hard for you to take control of your computer. MS Recovery Tool will prevent all other applications from running, except your web browser, and that means that even Task Manager will be prevented from opening. Of course, MS Recovery Tool doesn't leave your web browser alone, or allow it to open without a very good reason. Rather than being able to navigate to the sites you want to, your browser will constantly redirect you to the fake website for MS Recovery Tool. One way or another, you will always be redirected to that website, and you will not be able to look at anything else online.

Where Does MS Recovery Tool Come From?

MS Recovery Tool relies on tricking PC users into believing that MS Recovery Tool is a pre-installed Windows software, and MS Recovery Tool can succeed in that because no one downloads or installs MS Recovery Tool knowingly. Instead, MS Recovery Tool uses a Trojan in order to get you to download the malware without knowing it, or it takes advantage of a drive-by download. The Trojan may be hidden in a fake security program update, or it may download to your computer when you click on an advertisement for a fake online scan or visit a fake scanning site. Once the Trojan is on your computer, it drops the files for MS Recovery Tool, which are named with random strings of characters, and it changes the Windows registry so that MS Recovery Tool will run every time Windows starts.

MS Recovery Tool is not a new scam; in fact, MS Recovery Tool's strange pink interface makes MS Recovery Tool particularly easy to track and to link to other rogue anti-virus programs. ( MS Recovery Tool may also change the desktop wallpaper to a crazy, ranting warning about things on your computer that could "break your life," which only occurs in malware within a certain family.) MS Recovery Tool is just the latest member of the family that includes This family of malware goes back to 2009, but MS Recovery Tool showed up in early April 2011.