XP Antispyware 2011
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| Threat Level: | 100 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 33 |
| First Seen: | November 12, 2010 |
| Last Seen: | July 13, 2021 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
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Don't be fooled by XP Antispyware 2011. In spite of XP Antispyware 2011's realistic-sounding name, XP Antispyware 2011 is malware, which pretends to be security software in order to scare money out of the users of infected PC's. XP Antispyware 2011 has absolutely nothing to offer in the way of actual functionality or protection.
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Signs that your Computer is Infected with XP Antispyware 2011
XP Antispyware 2011 causes symptoms that are typical for XP Antispyware 2011's particular kind of malware, which falls into the category of rogue anti-virus programs. XP Antispyware 2011 will run every time you start your computer, and XP Antispyware 2011 will run fake scans of the system, supposedly looking for threats. You will not be able to skip past these "scans," and every time one of them runs, XP Antispyware 2011 will tell you that a bunch of your ordinary, harmless Windows component files are actually malicious or infected. XP Antispyware 2011 will try to get you to believe that these system files are harboring very dangerous viruses, which only XP Antispyware 2011 can remove, and XP Antispyware 2011 will tell you that the only way to get rid of them is to pay for a licensed or activated version of XP Antispyware 2011. Obviously, since XP Antispyware 2011 doesn't do anything more than play progress animations on an interface that uses stolen Windows icons, you will not get anything for your money if you pay the "activation" fee. XP Antispyware 2011 is meant to scare you into paying money to remove nonexistent threats.
There is more to this malware's campaign of scare tactics than just a fake scan. After the bogus scan finishes and Windows finishes loading, XP Antispyware 2011 will continue to lie to you about the state of your system's security. In particular, XP Antispyware 2011 will generate frequent pop-up security alerts, which will begin with phrases like System hijack, Stealth intrusion, and System danger. These alerts always say very vague things, and then they tell you to click a button to allow a scan or a download. As with the phony scans, the purpose of these fake alerts is to get you to visit the XP Antispyware 2011 website and pay for a completely worthless license. Of course, the XP Antispyware 2011 website will be the only website that your browser will take you to, anyway, since XP Antispyware 2011 changes the Internet settings on computers that XP Antispyware 2011 infects. You will find that XP Antispyware 2011 has changed your homepage, and that whenever you try to go to other sites, you get a fake security alert window instead.
Where Does XP Antispyware 2011 Come From?
XP Antispyware 2011 comes from a so-called "family" of rogue security applications, which are all, at their hearts, a Trojan widely known as Trojan.Win32/FakeRean. Trojan.Win32/FakeRean is what is known as a Trojan downloader. The Trojan is hidden in something that you will download without stopping to think twice about, like a phony video codec or a system update from a third-party website. Once the Trojan has secretly found its way into your PC, it downloads the files that it will need to set up and run the fake security program.
What's special about the malware in this family is that, actuality, all of it is just the same malicious program, which is named when it installs onto your system. The malware checks to see which version of Windows you're running, and then it uses that as part of the name. The second word and the year are terms pulled from lists of possible name components. Therefore, XP Antispyware 2011 only occurs on computers running Windows XP, but XP Antispyware 2011 is the same malware as (for example) Vista AntiVirus and Win 7 Total Security.
The malware that is behind XP Antispyware 2011 has been around since at least 2008, and the name XP Antispyware 2011 has been used since December 2010. Regardless of what XP Antispyware 2011 calls itself, this fake security software is not affiliated with Microsoft or with Windows; in fact, XP Antispyware 2011 is just one big Internet-based scam, which is operated out of Russia. Naturally, you should not trust XP Antispyware 2011 with your PC's security.
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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.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | AntiSpy2011Setup.exe | a09ee8a17a033804ec2571073922895f | 27 |
| 2. | vz.exe | 05b1c695acef9fdbe4e2dd73e0f26d67 | 2 |
| 3. | pw.exe | 6324A87EB7540DDD7152AC58F1FF8B50 | 0 |
| 4. | pw.exe | A6D7EDD6713EFCFFEC6713B069FD2798 | 0 |
