What is Home Safety Essentials?
Home Safety Essentials is a fake antivirus program that you should stay away from. It is a newer version of such rogues as PC Security Guardian, Anti-Malware Lab and Internet Security Essentials; and it is very eager to rip you off to the very last cent. Home Safety Essentials can easily accomplish that by looking and behaving like a genuine antivirus program. What is more, it even seamlessly infiltrates itself into your Windows explorer layout, making it look as if it is supposed to be there.
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Usually Home Safety Essentials is distributed via two main ways. The first method involves fake online malware scanner websites. The scanner in question is called Windows Web Security. If you happen to come across these websites, you are presented with a flashing advertisement saying that a suspicious activity might have been detected in your computer and you should perform a quick scan. After the scan you are informed that you computer is infected with various parasites and that is why you have to download Home Safety Essentials to get rid of them. This way you are tricked into downloading a rogue, thinking that it is a legitimate antivirus program. Other than that, Home Safety Essentials can get into your computer via hijacked websites without you even realizing it.
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The rogue does its job by performing a fake system scan and sending you a whole load of fake security alert messages. The scan results say that you are infected with a number of severely risky viruses and you need to terminate them immediately. The trick behind this is that Home Safety Essentials creates most of the files that later on it “detects” as dangerous ones. It drops a list of absolutely harmless files all over your system, later on picking them as something that might dangerous to your computer’s security. Here are some of these files:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\eb.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\energy.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\gid.tmp
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\pal.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\ppal.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\runddlkey.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\snl2w.drv
The pop-up notifications that you receive also seem to only support this claim, but do not be fooled by them. Home Safety Essentials works towards stealing your money and it will certainly do so, if you purchase the full version of the program. It happens, because by purchasing the program you reveal your credit card number, expiration date and the CVV2 code to a third party. Later on, this data can be used to perform various illegal operations and little by little your money will be stolen from you.
Keep your credit card information to yourself and remove Home Safety Essentials from your computer immediately. This rogue can seriously damage your system if you allow it to stay in there for a longer period of time. Invest in a reliable anti-spyware tool that will terminate this infection and check for any regenerated threats. Do take your system security seriously.
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