Security Tool
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Security Tool is a dangerous rogue antimalware application which is cloned from Total Security 2009. It will but use scam related methods to trick people to buy some kind of full (and fake) version of this program. The most commonly and extensively used method is to scare the user with fake security warnings and pop-ups. Check here Security Tool to learn how to remove Security tool.
Trojans are the main way people do get infected by Security Tool. You will get such Trojans from hacked websites, some of them are promoting fake online scanner. The next thing they will do will be to hijack your browser. Your browser will get re-directions to some download links that will install (after downloading it) Security Tool. Another method used by this malware to compromise computers is to redirect you to websites like 2tvtube.com or a2tv.com, which are fake websites. On those sites, the used is asked to download a video codec which seems to be a Flash application. Rather than installing a video codec, once you’re going to download that file, you will rather download and install Security Tool. Another trick used to install that threat is to redirect you to some websites having a tittle like “My Computer Online Scan”. That page will seems to be some online system scan of My Computer. This scan will return results that state that the My Computer folder is infected with dangerous malware and the user will be given a prompt with the options ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. No matter what you choose, the result will be the same: you will automatically download and install Security Tool on your PC. This site How to Remove Security Tool Windows 7 has all the infos you do need if you want to remove Security Tool when having Windows 7 on your PC while here How to Remove Security Tool you will learn how to remove Security Tool.
After infecting a PC, this malware will load itself in memory every time you do login on Windows, then it will do some fake system scan of your computer. It will then generate extensive reports and warnings which state that the computer is infected with a large amount of malware. Here are some alerts you might get : “Your Computer is infected” or “Warning! 55 viruses found!”. Some possible warnings you might get about your Internet browser includes things like “Spyware.IEMonster activity detected”.
Such spyware will also try to rob passwords from applications like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox Mozilla, Outlook, and more. Click here to remove it immediately with SecurityTool”, and also “Security Tool Warning Some critical system files of your computer were modified by malicious program. It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unauthorized modification by removing threats (Recommended)”. Sometimes your PC might not even detect any USB flash drives that are connected to it because Security Tool has compromised your system a lot. A large number of warning pop-ups will also be generated from the Windows Taskbar when Security Tool is active.
So whenever you’re going to do what Security Tool is asking you and you really want to clean your computer system, this threat will tell you that you are but using the trial version of this program and that you need to purchase the full registered version to properly clean your PC. Whatever you do and no matter how much you end up paying, the full registered version of Security Tool won’t delete a single virus or threat from your computer system because those threats reported did not even exist first of all. So it is very important for you to stay way from this scam.
Your best way to fully clean Security Tool from your system is to use a legit security-related application or even a web-based service that will scan and clean your PC.
