Threat Database Fake Error Messages 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert

'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert

By ESGI Advisor in Fake Error Messages

The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert is associated with a family of rogue anti-virus programs that use names that are variants of 'AVASoft' such as AVASoft Antivirus, AVASoft Professional Antivirus, etc. Those fake anti-virus applications, specially AVASoft Antivirus Professional carry out a version of a well known online scam that consists in trying to sell a useless, fake anti-virus software to inexperienced computer users. As part of its scam, these kinds of rogue security programs use a variety of fake error messages and alarming system alerts. The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert is just one of the many fake error messages used by this particular fake anti-virus. The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert in particular is designed to prevent the computer user from using their Web browser, not allowing computer users searching for help online in order to remove this threat from their computer.

Ananlyzing the 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert Itself

The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert resembles a legitimate system error message, crafted to imitate the design of Windows errors messages. The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert claims that the website the victim is visiting contains harmful, malicious content. The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert then gives the victim the option of upgrading AVASoft Antivirus Professional or taking the 'risk' of visiting the website in question. Of course, it is necessary to choose the second option. Since fake anti-virus programs associated with the 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert have no way of detecting or removing malware, it is important to ignore all messages, error messages and alerts that they display.

The Scam Associated with the 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert

The 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert does not indicate that there is indeed something wrong with the website that the computer user is trying to visit. Rather, the 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert indicates that the computer user's machine is severely infected with a rogue anti-virus program. These fake anti-virus programs will spam the victim with numerous fake error messages, making it seem as if there is actually a severe virus and Trojan infection on the victim's computer. The goal of fake error messages like the 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' fake alert is to convince the computer user that it is necessary to purchase an expensive 'upgrade' to the AVASoft Antivirus variant installed on the infected computer.

Messages

The following messages associated with 'Warning! The site you are trying to visit' Fake Alert were found:

Warning! The site you are trying to visit may harm your computer!
[legitimate site address here]
Your security setting level puts your computer at risk!
- Activate AVASoft Professional Antivirus, and enable safe web surfing (recommended).
- Ignore warnings and visit that site in the current state (not recommended).

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