DoctoAntivirus
Posted: May 27, 2014
Threat Metric
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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.
| Ranking: | 19,582 |
|---|---|
| Threat Level: | 1/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 9 |
| First Seen: | May 27, 2014 |
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| Last Seen: | March 3, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
DoctoAntivirus is a rogue anti-virus program that generates intentional false positives, or erroneous detections of threats that indicate innocent files. Since DoctoAntivirus has no benefit to your PC security and may cause various issues such as interfering with legitimate software, malware researchers recommend removing DoctoAntivirus without purchase. Like most scamware, DoctoAntivirus will try to block any efforts towards uninstalling DoctoAntivirus, and you should use reliable anti-malware software in all typical cases.
The PC Doctor Who Gives Bad News Every Time
As a fake anti-virus scanner from an as of yet undetermined family, DoctoAntivirus claims to be an independent, reputable security product, but malware researchers have seen no signs of DoctoAntivirus diverging from past fraudulent anti-virus programs in any meaningful ways. DoctoAntivirus primarily is noted for its fake scanner results, which are intended to display negative content at all times – even if there is no other threats (besides DoctoAntivirus) on the PC. Deleting software falsely implicated by DoctoAntivirus may harm your machine, and malware experts recommend ignoring any security advice that DoctoAntivirus provides in its entirety.
DoctoAntivirus also has been known for avoiding the display of a standard Control Panel entry that would allow PC users to uninstall DoctoAntivirus through standard Windows routines. Naturally, DoctoAntivirus's website (doctoantivirus.com) shows zero indications of either of these problems and has been designated by multiple PC security institutions as a threatening website. Although malware experts have yet to detect any exploits hosted on DoctoAntivirus's site, visiting any threat-distributing domain is a danger to your PC's security, regardless of all other factors.
Malware experts still are determining all of the functions from the latest versions of DoctoAntivirus, although most rogue anti-virus programs are happy to use other attacks to support their fake scans, including pop-ups, browser hijacks and changes to the Registry that disable other programs.
Escorting the Doc out of Your Computer
Malware experts traced DoctoAntivirus attacks since the middle of last year, but even in 2014, its website still is operational, continuing to foster an atmosphere of misinformation among its potential victims. Installation methods have not been completely outlined, but malware experts have seen evidence that may indicate that DoctoAntivirus is being installed automatically, in addition to the downloadable links provided at the DoctoAntivirus website. Mislabeled file downloads from unsafe advertisement networks, spam links and other disease vectors should, accordingly, be considered possible distribution methods for this fraudulent product.
As for resolving the aftereffects of a DoctoAntivirus infection, malware researchers warn that any financial data given to DoctoAntivirus's 'company' should be assumed to be compromised, opening up various possibilities. For PC users who are cautious enough to delete DoctoAntivirus with anti-malware tools, rather than buying DoctoAntivirus for no benefit, DoctoAntivirus should pose a minimal threat.
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