Advanced Antispyware Solution

Posted: April 3, 2012

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	543

First Seen:	April 3, 2012
Last Seen:	September 26, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Advanced Antispyware Solution is modeled off of the looks of legitimate anti-malware products, but eschews all of the real security features that Advanced Antispyware Solution pretends to possess. Although Advanced Antispyware Solution will provide threat alerts, system scans and other types of diagnostic information, as a rogue anti-spyware program, Advanced Antispyware Solution will never provide accurate results or help you remove any type of real PC threat. Because Advanced Antispyware Solution may also indulge in such attacks as redirecting your web browser or blocking legitimate security products to prevent its own removal, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers encourage you to treat Advanced Antispyware Solution as a threat to be deleted immediately after Advanced Antispyware Solution is disabled.

Why Advanced Antispyware Solution is More of a Problem Than a Solution

Advanced Antispyware Solution pretends to be a good anti-spyware and general anti-malware product, but SpywareRemove.com malware research team has confirmed Advanced Antispyware Solution's utter lack of real PC threat detection or removal features. As is typical for scamware, Advanced Antispyware Solution displays itself and its various warning pop-ups automatically without any way for you to disable them, and any Advanced Antispyware Solution-infected PC will quickly become the object of a fraudulent threat alert bombardment. Fake information from Advanced Antispyware Solution can also extend to fake system scans and may even be used as part of browser redirect attacks that display fraudulent error screens or other forms of inaccurate warnings.

Even though the variety of fake alerts at Advanced Antispyware Solution's command is significant, most of its alerts can be identified by their exaggerated and unlikely contents that always warn you about unusual and high-level PC threats.

Watching Out for How Advanced Antispyware Solution Furthers Its Cause of Fraudulent Registration

Advanced Antispyware Solution's designated goal is to encourage you to purchase a registration key for its software, which SpywareRemove.com malware experts discourage as a matter of course due to the inherent risk in giving criminals access to your financial information. However, even if you're steeled to refuse Advanced Antispyware Solution's offers, you should consider Advanced Antispyware Solution a danger to your PC to be removed right away, since Advanced Antispyware Solution may block other security programs, attack your web browser with unwanted redirects or create junk files for the purpose of labeling them as Trojans. Similar safeguards should be taken against other scamware products in Advanced Antispyware Solution's family FakeVimes, which also encompasses Privacy Guard Pro, PrivacyGuard Pro 2.0, Extra Antivirus, Fast Antivirus 2009, Presto TuneUp, Windows Security Suite, Smart Virus Eliminator, Packed.Generic.245, Volcano Security Suite, Windows Enterprise Suite, Enterprise Suite, Additional Guard, Live PC Care, PC Live Guard, Live Enterprise Suite, Security Antivirus, My Security Wall, CleanUp Antivirus and Smart Security.

Stopping Advanced Antispyware Solution from starting before you use suitable anti-malware software for its deletion is suggested as an ideal solution, although you may also want to fake registering Advanced Antispyware Solution before any of this is attempted. The codes 'K7LY-R5GU-SI9D-EVFB' and 'U2FD-S2LA-H4KA-UEPB' are both functional for this family of rogue anti-spyware programs and may help to reduce Advanced Antispyware Solution's attacks before you delete Advanced Antispyware Solution once and for all.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

%AppData%\Advanced Antispyware Solution\ScanDisk_.exe

File name: %AppData%\Advanced Antispyware Solution\ScanDisk_.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

%AppData%\Advanced Antispyware Solution\Instructions.ini

File name: %AppData%\Advanced Antispyware Solution\Instructions.ini
Mime Type: unknown/ini
Group: Malware file

%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk

File name: %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk
File type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file

%CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe

File name: %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

%CommonAppData%\[random]\ASE.ico

File name: %CommonAppData%\[random]\ASE.ico
Mime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file

%CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].cfg

File name: %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].cfg
Mime Type: unknown/cfg
Group: Malware file

%Desktop%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk

File name: %Desktop%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk
File type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file

%Programs%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk

File name: %Programs%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk
File type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file

%StartMenu%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk

File name: %StartMenu%\Advanced Antispyware Solution.lnk
File type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Advanced Antispyware Solution" "%CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe" /s /d

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%AppData%\Advanced Antispyware Solution

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	System Alert Advanced Antispyware Solution has detected pontentially harmful software in your system. It is strongly recommended that you register Advanced Antispyware Solution to remove all found threats immediately.
2	Warning! Access conflict detected! An unidentified program is trying to access system process address space. Process Name: AllowedForm Location: C:\Windows\...\taskmgr.exe
3	Warning! Virus detected Threat Detected: Trojan-PSW.VBS.Half Description: This is a VBScript-virus. It steals user's passwords.