Windows Troublemakers Agent

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The crooks who make fake anti-virus programs apparently are scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to names, because Windows Troublemakers Agent is their latest fake anti-virus software release. The name is meant to give the impression that Windows Troublemakers Agent is some kind of helpful Windows program, when the truth is that Windows Troublemakers Agent is a troublemaker! Windows Troublemakers Agent is malware, and you shouldn't trust Windows Troublemakers Agent with your computer's security.

What Happens During a Windows Troublemakers Agent Infection

Throughout Windows Troublemakers Agent's infection process, Windows Troublemakers Agent will pretend to be a Microsoft product, and that includes the Trojan that Windows Troublemakers Agent uses in order to sneak into PCs. Specifically, Windows Troublemakers Agent uses the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Malware, which causes warning messages mimicking the appearance of Microsoft Security Essentials alerts to appear from the system tray. These messages will first say that Windows has detected a threat and that you should scan the system. Then, you'll see alerts that say that Windows has identified the threat as a particular Trojan, and in order to remove it, all you have to do is click "OK" to download the right anti-virus software. However, all of these fake alerts are the result of a Trojan in the first place: one that hides in file downloads from questionable sites or pretends to be a video codec, so that you download it without knowing. If you agree to download the software that this Trojan recommends, you download Windows Troublemakers Agent.

Windows Troublemakers Agent follows the same pattern of attack used by every other member in Windows Troublemakers Agent's enormous family of fake security programs. Windows Troublemakers Agent will load every time Windows starts, and Windows Troublemakers Agent will show its phony interface that uses the Windows name and logo (illegally), where Windows Troublemakers Agent will run a fake scan of your system. The scans always return results, and Windows Troublemakers Agent will tell you that in order to remove the threats Windows Troublemakers Agent claims to have found, you need to purchase a licensed or activated copy of the Windows Troublemakers Agent software. Windows Troublemakers Agent will even take you to a payment site, which has been made to look sort of realistic, and the site will promise you amazing anti-virus software in return for a credit card payment. Because Windows Troublemakers Agent is malware, and it isn't capable of functioning as anti-virus software, you will not get anything if you pay the money the website demands.

Windows Troublemakers Agent will take every opportunity it can get to try to get you to that payment website. When you try to use your computer, Windows Troublemakers Agent will cause frequent security alert messages to pop up, which will say vague scary things about your security, or will claim that various harmless programs on your computer are actually trying to do something malicious. Windows Troublemakers Agent's alerts will remind you to "activate" the software in order to deal with these nonexistent threats. Furthermore, Windows Troublemakers Agent will label all of your other ordinary programs as "threats," and prevent you from opening them. Finally, just in case all of that doesn't convince you, Windows Troublemakers Agent will redirect your web browser when you try to go online, so that you can only view the Windows Troublemakers Agent malicious websites.

Windows Troublemakers Agent is Just an Old Malware with a New Name

In a way, Windows Troublemakers Agent is like the malware special of the day – Windows Troublemakers Agent's creators have been releasing the same malware over and over, and literally every day they release it again under a new name. Since the scam has been going on for a few months now, the list of names for this same malware has gotten so long that just listing all of the released names would take one or two very long paragraphs. Some recent members of this malware family include Windows Troubles Analyzer, Windows Express Settings, Windows Servant System, Windows Defence Center, and Windows Error Correction. All of these fake security programs claim to be Microsoft products, but they are not – instead, all of them support the same Russian scam.

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