Windows Debug System
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| Threat Level: | 100 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 4 |
| First Seen: | March 3, 2011 |
| Last Seen: | January 8, 2020 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Windows Debug System Image
If you're reading this, you probably already suspect that Windows Debug System is not what it claims to be. It's true – Windows Debug System is not a Windows product, Windows Debug System doesn't debug anything, and Windows Debug System is not security software. Windows Debug System is a rogue anti-virus application, from a long line of similar malware that comes out with a new name for itself literally every day. The crazy thing is that's not an exaggeration; Windows Debug System is just the malware flavor of the day.
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Signs of an Infection with Windows Debug System
The signs of an infection with Windows Debug System are impossible to ignore. Really, that's because Windows Debug System doesn't want to be ignored. Windows Debug System wants you to think that Windows Debug System is real security software, when the truth is that Windows Debug System is entirely malicious. Windows Debug System is part of a scam, and Windows Debug System tries to convince the users of infected computers to pay money to remove threats from their computers that aren't even present in the first place. In order to do this, Windows Debug System's main tactic is to use fake scans and alerts to tell you that Windows Debug System has found infections on your computer, and that begins with the fake user interface.
The phony interface for Windows Debug System will show up when your computer starts, and before you see the desktop. Windows Debug System will look pretty realistic, with the Windows name and logo, and some status icons that are supposed to represent various aspects of your PC's security. These status icons will always show that your security is poor, because Windows Debug System can't actually monitor anything that Windows Debug System says it can.
However, all of that is just a backdrop for the real purpose of this phony home screen, which is to run fake system scans. You can't opt out of these "scans", either. Windows Debug System will run a little progress bar animation, and then Windows Debug System will say that it has found a staggering number of infections that need to be removed. Some of the results in the list will even include the names of real viruses – just to scare you, of course, because none of them is actually on your computer. Nonetheless, Windows Debug System will prompt you to remove these viruses, and if you click through the prompts, you will find that Windows Debug System wants you to pay to "activate" or "register" Windows Debug System's software before it will remove the infections. To that end, Windows Debug System will take you to a payment website and you will be asked to enter your credit card number and pay for Windows Debug System. Unfortunately, you will not get anything for your money.
It is possible, most of the time, to make it past the interface screen eventually so that you can see your desktop. It hardly makes a difference, because Windows Debug System will interfere with everything that you try to do, while generating pop-up alerts that say that your system is in danger. Windows Debug System shows the same alerts as all of the other fake security programs in Windows Debug System's family, including one claiming that Firefox is a virus, one that says lsass.exe caused some kind of critical error during the boot process, and one that says that someone or something is trying to tamper with the registry. Windows Debug System generates other alerts when you actually try to do anything, like running another program (even Task Manager), which will cause Windows Debug System to prevent the program from starting and then tell you that the program is infected or malicious.
Don't go looking for help on the Internet, either, because Windows Debug System can redirect your web browser to malicious sites. If you're really unlucky, Windows Debug System may completely disable your PC from connecting to the Internet. The crooks behind Windows Debug System apparently hope that you'll think that their software is doing all of this for your safety.
How Windows Debug System Infects a PC
So, if you have this malware on your computer, and Windows Debug System claims to be Windows software but isn't, where did you get Windows Debug System? Well, Windows Debug System infiltrates systems by using a Trojan that mimics Microsoft Security Essentials alerts. As Windows Debug System's name suggests, the Trojan is hidden in things that seem harmless, so that you will download them without thinking twice about it. The Trojan that causes the fake alerts is especially common in files downloaded from pirating sites or through file sharing services, as well as program updates or video codecs downloaded from secretly malicious third-party websites. (In other words, it is really risky to download a Flash update from anywhere other than Adobe's own site.) Once the Trojan is on your computer, Windows Debug System causes alerts to appear from the system tray, and the alerts look just like actual Microsoft Security Essentials alerts. These alerts will say that Windows has detected an Unknown Win32/Trojan infection, and ask you to run a scan. If you click to run the scan, the alerts will next tell you that Windows has found a virus called Trojan.Horse.Win32.PAV.64.a, and ask if you want to download some software in order to remove it. If you agree to download this software, that's when you install Windows Debug System – and then it causes the computer to reboot.
Windows Debug System’s Clones, Mutations, and Background
The fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Malware supports a huge number of different rogue anti-virus applications related to Windows Debug System, including Windows Efficiency Manager, Windows Express Help, and Windows Troubles Analyzer, to name just a few. The malware in this family makes a point of claiming to be Windows software, but that is most definitely not the case. Windows Debug System, along with all of its relatives, is part of a Russian scam that aims to defraud Windows users. The scam is vast and ongoing, and although Windows Debug System has been the source of malware infections for several months, new names and new mutations of this same malware appear every day. Windows Debug System showed up in the beginning of March 2011.
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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.
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| 1. | rrgpkj.exe | d5808c879a01126b6ec1bd4e8fbd6e25 | 1 |
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