Windows Wise Protection

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Windows Wise Protection is not what it wants you to think it is. It cannot protect anything, and keeping it on your computer is unwise. In fact, Windows Wise Protection is just another name for a rogue anti-virus program that has been patrolling the Internet lately. The con-artists behind this malware rename it periodically, in order to continue infecting as many systems as possible before anyone realizes that Windows Wise Protection is a threat.

How Can you Tell if your PC is Infected?

Because Windows Wise Protection is far from unique, the symptoms of its presence are pretty standard. Windows Wise Protection will run every time Windows starts, and show a fake home screen. This fake interface uses the Windows name and logo, without permission, as well as some generic-looking icons that are supposed to represent different aspects of your PC's security. Windows Wise Protection will always report that your computer is at risk, or that it is unsecured, on this fake user interface. This screen is also where Windows Wise Protection will run its bogus system scans, which always turn up a list of detected "threats". Then, Windows Wise Protection will offer its licensed version as the only way to remove these "threats". However, this is nothing more than a scare tactic, since the infections that Windows Wise Protection reports that it has found are not actually on your computer; and also, there is no license to be had, because Windows Wise Protection is not real anti-virus software.

Once you actually make it to your desktop, Windows Wise Protection has more nasty things in store. Windows Wise Protection will prevent you from opening other programs, and every time you try to start another program, Windows Wise Protection will stop it and tell you that the program in question is "infected". Even the Task Manager is disabled, and you will not able to use it to kill Windows Wise Protection. Windows Wise Protection will also cause frequent pop-up alerts. These will say that some sort of dangerous threat has been detected, or something has gone horribly wrong, and the unique way to solve the circumstances is to buy a license for Windows Wise Protection. Some of the most common alert messages will say that Firefox is a keylogger, that lsass.exe is unstable or causing problems and that some virus has tried to alter the registry. These alerts are the same on all infected systems, and the same across all of the members of Windows Wise Protection's family of rogue anti-virus applications, and they are there in order to prompt you to buy a license for this malware.

There is a payment page that Windows Wise Protection will send you to if you follow its prompts to buy a license, and that page really will catch your credit card details and charge you money. Remember that Windows Wise Protection is not real anti-virus software. If you pay for the license, you will not actually get anything in return. Windows Wise Protection has no functionality to unlock; it's fake.

Finally, as far as symptoms go, there have been reports that Windows Wise Protection may collect information on the behavior of the computer's user, and use that to determine its schedule of deployment for its fake scans and alerts. This would mean that Windows Wise Protection tries to track and take advantage of how you act, in order to show you its fake warnings and scans when it thinks you will be most likely to notice them or be affected by them.

How the Windows Wise Protection Infection Happens

For the most part, Windows Wise Protection relies on the Microsoft Security Essentials Trojan in order to infiltrate computers. This Trojan generates fake alerts made to look as if they come from Microsoft Security Essentials, and which will warn you that a Trojan (other than itself) has been found on your computer. After warning you of this phony threat, the MSE Trojan will tell you that it has found "recommended" software for you to download, so you can remove the threat. If you follow the prompts, what you download will not be anti-virus software, but a rogue anti-virus application. Windows Wise Protection is just one of the parasites that the MSE Trojan supports.

Additional Information on Windows Wise Protection

Ultimately, Windows Wise Protection is part of a scam that originated in Russia. "Windows Wise Protection" is just one of many names referring to the same malware, which supports the same scam. This particular name happened to appear in early February, 2011. There have been many other names for this parasite, including Windows Software Protection, Windows Software Guard, Windows Health Center, Windows Safety Protection, Windows Shield Center, and are so many more that it would be hard to outline them all. As with any of these scams, it is important to remember that paying the money that the malware requests is never the answer, and will not result in anything positive. You can remove Windows Wise Protection from your computer, no matter what it might try to get you to think.

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