Slow-PCfighter
Posted: February 9, 2012
Threat Metric
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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.
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% 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: | 2,043 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 16,460 |
First Seen: | February 9, 2012 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Slow-PCfighter is a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) and a sub-program of WIN32/WinMaximizer, a group that also includes WinMaximizer. Like WinMaximizer, Slow-PCfighter uses both misleading scanner results, as well as inaccurate diagnostic messages, to make you think that your PC is threatened by problems that don't, in fact, exist.
Slow-PCfighter is marketed as a program that can speed up your PC by detecting and eliminating a wide range of errors that are skipped over by other types of diagnostic, security and anti-malware programs. If you only pay attention to Slow-PCfighter's looks, though, you may find yourself impressed by its error-checking abilities, since Slow-PCfighter will always pretend that up to over a thousand different problems are on your computer that can be fixed during one of Slow-PCfighter's fake scans.
Other symptoms of infection by Slow-PCfighter are, at the time of this writing, limited to other types of fake errors, warnings and toolbar notifications. You should always ignore warning messages from Slow-PCfighter, since they make no attempt to coincide with real computer problems and have no function except to tempt you into spending money at Slow-PCfighter's website – an act which may encourage additional charges on your credit card in the future.
If you need to remove Slow-PCfighter from your computer, we don't recommend that you use Slow-PCfighter's included uninstall tool, since this tool may leave hidden components of Slow-PCfighter on your computer. However, competent anti-malware programs can remove Slow-PCfighter without any trouble, although, Slow-PCfighter may be undetectable if your software hasn't been updated to include recent PC threats in its database.
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:%WINDIR%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Admin-Notification.job
File name: %WINDIR%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Admin-Notification.jobMime Type: unknown/job
Group: Malware file
%WINDIR%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Admin-Startup.job
File name: %WINDIR%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Admin-Startup.jobMime Type: unknown/job
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Logs\CommonTrayInstaller.log.txt
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Logs\CommonTrayInstaller.log.txtMime Type: unknown/txt
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Logs\Tray.log.txt
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Logs\Tray.log.txtMime Type: unknown/txt
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Application Data\Fighters\Tray\Configurations\TKTRAY.xml
File name: %CommonAppData%\Application Data\Fighters\Tray\Configurations\TKTRAY.xmlMime Type: unknown/xml
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\TipofDay_EN.xml
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\TipofDay_EN.xmlMime Type: unknown/xml
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Configurations\RCPRO.xml
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Configurations\RCPRO.xmlMime Type: unknown/xml
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\products_list.xml
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\products_list.xmlMime Type: unknown/xml
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\products_list.xml
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\products_list.xmlMime Type: unknown/xml
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\rcpro.ico
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\rcpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\sfpro.ico
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\sfpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\swpro.ico
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\swpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\vfpro.ico
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\vfpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\rcpro.ico
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\rcpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\sfpro.ico
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\sfpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\swpro.ico
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\swpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\fdpro.ico
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\fdpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\vfpro.ico
File name: %AppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\vfpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\fdpro.ico
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\Tray\Menu\fdpro.icoMime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
%CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter
File name: %CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighterGroup: Malware file
%CommonDesktop%\SLOW-PCfighter.lnk
File name: %CommonDesktop%\SLOW-PCfighter.lnkFile type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file
%CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.lnk
File name: %CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.lnkFile type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file
%CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Uninstall.lnk
File name: %CommonPrograms%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Uninstall.lnkFile type: Shortcut
Mime Type: unknown/lnk
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\Tray\FightersTray.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\Tray\FightersTray.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\Tray\MsgSys.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\Tray\MsgSys.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\MsgSys.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\MsgSys.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Sync.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Sync.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Uninstall.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Uninstall.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\UpDates.exe
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\UpDates.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\sfhtml.dll
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\sfhtml.dllFile type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\CommonToolkitSuiteLight.dll
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\CommonToolkitSuiteLight.dllFile type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
%CommonAppData%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\wxfdata.wxf
File name: %CommonAppData%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\wxfdata.wxfMime Type: unknown/wxf
Group: Malware file
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\CommonToolkitSuite.cts
File name: %ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\CommonToolkitSuite.ctsMime Type: unknown/cts
Group: Malware file
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FightersHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SLOW-PCfighterHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\FightersTray.exeHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Common Toolkit Suite
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