Win 7 Antispyware 2014

Posted: September 8, 2014

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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:	17,086
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	143

First Seen:	September 11, 2014
Last Seen:	September 22, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Win 7 Antispyware 2014 is a clone of previous Multi-Rogue-based scamware, originating with Multi-Rogue 2012 and continuing up to the current 2014 branch. Members of Win 7 Antispyware 2014's family imitate the superficial features of anti-malware products while acting to harm the security of any accessible PC, and will try to persuade victims into spending money on registering their software to no benefit. Recommended countermeasures against Win 7 Antispyware 2014 include taking any means needed to disable its startup process, which can be followed by using real anti-malware programs to delete Win 7 Antispyware 2014, which is just as hostile as any other harmful software.

An Antispyware that does More Harm than Good

Win 7 Antispyware 2014's family of scamware specializes in compromising Windows PCs, with minor variants according to the name of the infected operating system. Win 7 Antispyware 2014 belongs to one of the newest branches of the FakeRean family, which was updated for 2014, although malware experts have found no evidence of additional core functions being included with the name updates. Like the rest of its family members, Win 7 Antispyware 2014 primarily is defined by its fake anti-malware functions, which Win 8 Protection 2014 depicts through simulated scans of your hard drive, Web browser error pages and pop-up window-based alerts.

Besides attempts to make itself seem like a legitimate anti-spyware product, Win 7 Antispyware 2014 also may attack real security programs. Malware researchers have rated default Windows security programs and features, such as the Windows Firewall, Task Manager and Update Manager as being at the greatest risk of attack from Win 7 Antispyware 2014. In most cases, programs will be terminated automatically after launching, although Win 7 Antispyware 2014 also may uninstall some programs entirely. Windows settings also may be modified to endanger your PC.

All of the above attacks are intended to give the impression that multiple threats supposedly are being detected by Win 7 Antispyware 2014. Since Win 7 Antispyware 2014 lacks real anti-malware detection or the ability to remove genuine threats, you should ignore any security information provided by Win 7 Antispyware 2014, which easily could lead to you harming your PC by deleting non-harmful files.

A New Year's Solution to the Same, Old Scamware

Even though Win 7 Antispyware 2014's attacks are coordinated to give the impression of third parties being responsible for all of its problems, malware researchers find disabling Win 7 Antispyware 2014 essential to the basic safety of your computer. You can do so through any of several methods proven against typical threats, such as by restarting your computer with Safe Mode or by loading Windows from a removable USB drive. Regardless of the way you choose to disable Win 7 Antispyware 2014, removing Win 7 Antispyware 2014 then should be undertaken by qualified anti-malware tools.

Win 7 Antispyware 2014 and its relatives have yet to have their distribution models verified. However, malware researchers have managed to identify other members of its family, which are equally threatening to your PC's security. Some of the most recent of these members include Antivirus 2008 Pro, Antivirus XP 2008, Windows Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2008, PC Clean Pro, Antivirus Pro 2009, Rogue.Vista Antivirus 2008, AntiSpy Safeguard, ThinkPoint, Spyware Protection 2010, Internet Antivirus 2011, Palladium Pro, XP Anti-Virus 2011, CleanThis, XP Security 2012, XP Home Security 2012 and AntiVirus PRO 2015. As usual, any brand name of security software should be researched to verify its qualifications before you trust unusual warning messages, links or requests provided by Win 7 Antispyware 2014.

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