Internet Protection 2011

Although Internet Protection 2011 may use a newer, more professional-looking interface, in all its functions, Internet Protection 2011 is just a copy of older rogue anti-virus programs. Internet Protection 2011 will present itself as a useful and necessary security application right from the start, but all of Internet Protection 2011's warnings and alerts are false positives, and the protection it offers is nonexistent. Your PC may also suffer from problems like crashing programs and changed system settings while Internet Protection 2011 is on-board. Removing Internet Protection 2011 is a high-level task for dedicated anti-malware software, since Internet Protection 2011 is known to use sophisticated rootkit-based techniques to avoid imminent deletion.

Avoiding Common Internet Protection 2011 Infection Attacks

The most widely-reported mean for being infected by Internet Protection 2011 is through trusting in fake online system scanners hosted on dangerous websites. These websites pretend to scan your PC, create fake infection alerts, and then ask you to download Internet Protection 2011 or another form of malware as the fix to a problem that doesn't exist in the first place. Identifying a malicious website may be difficult if you're just looking at the URL or interface; in general, you should only trust a scan from a website that has had independent sources verify its integrity.

Internet Protection 2011 is only a relatively newer version of a rogue threat that's been recycled for some time now. Alternative names for Internet Protection 2011 include Antivirus 2010, Antivirus Antispyware 2011 and Antivirus 2010 Security Centre, but this rogue security program subgroup currently includes over a dozen other known members. Despite slight name differences, all of these PC threats are responsible for the same types of attacks on your PC, and this includes Internet Protection 2011.

After your computer is infected, Internet Protection 2011 will launch with Windows and start a system scan without your permission. You should avoid removing any files that Internet Protection 2011 says are infected, as Internet Protection 2011 is unable to detect real infections and is simply finger-pointing at harmless files.

You may see error messages like the following, as a fear-burgeoning supplement to Internet Protection 2011's scans:

Attention! Network attack detected!
Your computer is being attacked from remote host. Attack has been classified as Remote code execution attempt.

Windows Security Alert
Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files.
You should immediately run full scanning of your system to prevent any unauthorized access to your data.
Click YES to run Antivirus scanner right now.

Attention! Threat detected!
NOTEPAD.EXE is infected with Trojan-BNK.Keylogger.gen
Private data can be stolen by third parties including card details and passwords.
It is strongly recommended to perform threat removal on your system.

All of these supposed threats, including the trojan keylogger detection, are faked. Given that Internet Protection 2011 has no real protective functions, you should set about to deleting Internet Protection 2011 instead of giving it the payments it persistently asks of you.

Internet Protection 2011 - Not Content with 'Just' False Positives

Another issue caused by Internet Protection 2011 is generally blocked program usage; applications will crash or otherwise malfunction simply because Internet Protection 2011 doesn't want them to work! One known method Internet Protection 2011 and its related rogue threats use to accomplish this is to change the permissions of files, with the following error popping up as a result:

Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

You may also see an 'Access Denied' message instead. This particular attack can be removed by default Windows applications, but Internet Protection 2011 will only re-create the issue if you don't remove Internet Protection 2011 as well.

Internet Protection 2011 may also use rootkit methods to corrupt other processes in memory or to conceal itself. This makes deleting Internet Protection 2011 a task that should be left to either a high-level computer expert or to anti-malware software designed to combat such threats. Trying to remove Internet Protection 2011 the way you would remove an ordinary program or file is likely to cause a variety of problems, such as loss of Internet access, while also not being successful at kicking out Internet Protection 2011.