Windows Protection Tool
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EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are assessment reports for different malware threats which have been collected and analyzed by our research team. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards evaluate and rank threats using several metrics including real-world and potential risk factors, trends, frequency, prevalence, and persistence. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are updated regularly based on our research data and metrics and are useful for a wide range of computer users, from end users seeking solutions to remove malware from their systems to security experts analyzing threats.
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards display a variety of useful information, including:
Ranking: The ranking of a particular threat in EnigmaSoft’s Threat Database.
Severity Level: The determined severity level of an object, represented numerically, based on our risk modeling process and research, as explained in our Threat Assessment Criteria.
Infected Computers: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
See also Threat Assessment Criteria.
| Ranking: | 8,609 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 25,758 |
| First Seen: | April 2, 2014 |
| Last Seen: | September 5, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Windows Protection Tool is not what the name indicates. Windows Protection Tool will take your money and not eliminate any threat that may be present on your system. Ill minded people are always poisoning the Web with fake security programs like Windows Protection Tool. Windows Protection Tool is simply another hoax used to present a danger illusion to Internet users long enough to take their money. Windows Protection Tool is among many rogueware that belong to the FakeVimes family. Trusting Windows Protection Tool, users may mistake all of the aggressive pop-up alerts and system scan results as a need to purchase the Windows Protection Tool program. In doing so, computer users would have made a mistake since, very soon, they will find out that the purchased version of Windows Protection Tool will not eliminate the so-called threats that Windows Protection Tool claims to have detected.
Some of the popular rogue security programs that belong to the FakeVimes family, clones of Windows Protection Tool, include Virus Melt, Presto TuneUp, Fast Antivirus 2009, Extra Antivirus, Windows Security Suite, Smart Virus Eliminator, Packed.Generic.245, Volcano Security Suite, Windows Enterprise Suite, Enterprise Suite, Additional Guard, PC Live Guard, Live PC Care, Live Enterprise Suite, Security Antivirus, My Security Wall, CleanUp Antivirus, Smart Security, Windows Protection Suite, Windows Work Catalyst.
Windows Protection Tool spreads with the assistance of Trojans. Once a Trojan secretly installs on a computer, Windows Protection Tool can seize the control of the infected machine and install whatever it wants without the computer user knowing it. A Trojan can install Windows Protection Tool onto your machine and configure Windows Protection Tool to run instantly when you access Windows. When Windows Protection Tool is fully present on a machine, Windows Protection Tool will pretend to run a system scan and detect various threats that supposedly will not be removed until the PC user buys the program. You should ignore any advice from Windows Protection Tool and remove Windows Protection Tool as soon as it starts bugging you. Don't hesitate to remove Windows Protection Tool and the Trojan that installed it into your system.
URLs
Windows Protection Tool may call the following URLs:
| naturaldownload.com |
