BoanCop

Posted: December 28, 2011

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:	8/10
Infected PCs:	9

First Seen:	December 28, 2011
Last Seen:	January 14, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Although BoanCop's split pea soup-shaded interface is fairly-memorable, BoanCop's functions and features are anything but unique, as SpywareRemove.com malware analysts have identified BoanCop to be just one more example of scamware from the Onescan family. As a rogue anti-malware program from Korea, BoanCop creates an impression that your PC is under attack by a range of different PC threats, but both BoanCop's pop-up warnings and the results from its scanner are fraudulent, and you should never trust BoanCop to accurately-detect viruses, Trojans or other types of malicious software. Because BoanCop also attempts to contact remote servers to notify its criminal partners about its successful installation, BoanCop should also be considered a danger to your network security, and you should remove BoanCop as soon as you have access to appropriate anti-malware applications.

Don't Let Your PC Get Caught On BoanCop's Beat

Other than minor alterations to its appearance, BoanCop behaves functionally-identically to other types of rogue security scanners from the Win32/Onescan subgroup (which also includes BoanKorea, SweeperLab, DoctorCom, PCVaccine, Dr.Boan and CleanBoan. Onescan-based scamware products like BoanCop are promoted by a variety of malicious websites that tend to use their products' names for domain names (for example, boansupport.co.kr and boancop.com). The majority of these sites, if not all of them, use a co.kr suffix (a regional identifier for Korean sites), and most also use a Korean text, like Onescan programs themselves. BoanCop follows this trend and presents almost all of its text in Korean, which will appear to be indecipherable if you haven't installed the appropriate language pack.

BoanCop confines its functions to the same features that other Onescan products utilize – simulations of system scans and error messages that contain fabricated information about PC threats that are supposedly infecting your hard drive. You should do your best to identify BoanCop-derived warnings and disregard them, since BoanCop's purpose for presenting this information is to sucker you into purchasing a 'full' version of BoanCop to remove malicious software that doesn't exist. Contact with websites that are associated with BoanCop (or other variants of Onescan scamware) should also be considered dangerous and may even install Onescan variants without your permission.

Cleaning Up the Corruption That's Inherent in BoanCop's System

To defend your PC against BoanCop attacks, SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends that you keep your browser updated to reduce vulnerabilities and use strong settings for your web-browsing security, particularly as far as scripts (such as JavaScript and Flash) are concerned. This will minimize the possibility of BoanCop ever getting onto your PC by way of its promoting websites, although it doesn't take away the need for strong anti-malware software.

If BoanCop is already on your computer, you shouldn't attempt to remove BoanCop by yourself, even though Onescan scamware has been known to include (fake!) uninstall utilities. Rather than trusting BoanCop to get rid of all its components, you should remove BoanCop with an anti-malware scanner – and check up on your network and firewall settings to make sure that BoanCop hasn't left unwanted changes in its wake.

BoanCop

Threat Metric

Don't Let Your PC Get Caught On BoanCop's Beat

Cleaning Up the Corruption That's Inherent in BoanCop's System

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